Bug#866166: sagemath: FTBFS with Sphinx 1.5: AttributeError: 'BuildEnvironment' object has no attribute 'citations'

[Tobias Hansen]

On 06/28/2017 04:03 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> Hi Tobias, and thanks for the quick response!
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 02:44:23PM +0100, Tobias Hansen wrote:
>> Hi Dmitry,
>>
>> would it be an option to upload sphinx 1.5 to unstable together with
>> sagemath 8.0 (which works fine with sphinx 1.5) or do you want to do it
>> before? We plan to upload sagemath 8.0 to unstable when it's released
>> (they are at beta12 now).
> That depends on how long do you estimate the final release to take.
>
> From what I found [1] the sage-8.0 milestone still has 341 active issues,
> which does not sound very optimistic.
>
> I can wait for 2 or 3 weeks, but I do not want to wait longer. After all
> upstream already released Sphinx 1.6 so we are two major releases behind.
>
>> Otherwise it's a matter of backporting commits from sagemath 8.0 to 7.6.
> I think this is not enough, unless the second part of my bugreport is also
> addressed upstream.
>
> [1]: https://trac.sagemath.org/milestone/sage-8.0
>
> --
> Dmitry Shachnev


Ok, we should fix this then. The sage 8.0 package build actually stops
before dh_sphinxdoc currently (at override_dh_auto_install), so I don't
know yet if we have the same problem there.

Best,

Tobias