Bug#877109: pybtex FTBFS with Sphinx 1.6.4-1

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 10:40:52AM +0100, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> > sphinx (1.6.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> > ...
> >   * dh_sphinxdoc: Turn warning about missing SOURCELINK_SUFFIX to an error.
> > ...
> >  -- Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 at debian.org>  Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:47:54 +0300
> 
> And what the hell am I supposed to do with this?!
> 
> Nice of you to report the issue but, without further context, I can't take
> further actions.

00:26 < mitya57> bunk: if you find more bugs caused by this, can you please add an explanation that without SOURCELINK_SUFFIX, search 
                 will not work with Sphinx 1.5+?
00:27 < mitya57> Like I wrote in #876544.
00:27 -zwiebelbot:#debian-python- Debian#876544: isso: FTBFS: DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS does not define SOURCELINK_SUFFIX - 
          https://bugs.debian.org/876544


> Isn't it the Dmitry's responsibility to at least communicate on the change
> and suggest solutions for it to people impacted by RCs? If he did, please
> point me to the announcement in case I missed it.

00:22 < mitya57> Oh, that my SOURCELINK_SUFFIX change causes too many FTBFSes, I did not expect that :(


> This is really frustrating.
> 
> Ghis

cu
Adrian

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