[Python-modules-team] Bug#944913: python3-sphinx: Please update to Sphinx 2.2.1

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Sandro!

On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 02:47:10PM -0500, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> > The current version packaged in Debian is very outdated,
> > even in unstable. Please consider packaging the current
> > upstream release.
>
> I'm echoing this request: the just released numpy/1.18.0 requires
> sphinx >= 2.2.0, so we cannot upgrade numpy without an updated sphinx.
> please consider package it at the earliest.

Unfortunately sphinx ≥ 2.0 dropped support for Python 2.

So I should either wait until all blocking bugs of #938528 are resolved, or
introduce a new source package like sphinx-python2 for the old version.

However the latter solution will mean that we can no longer have shared
sphinx-common and libjs-sphinxdoc packages, and we will need to have two
versions of dh_sphinxdoc too (or one version that will generate different
dependencies for old and new sphinx). This is something I wanted to avoid,
because it is extra work for supporting a Python 2 version that will be
dead in a few days.

Recently your script bumped many Python 2 removal bugs to RC, with the
intention to accelerate porting those packages to Python 3 (or getting them
removed). Maybe better to wait a couple of months and then just upload new
Sphinx and break its Python 2 reverse build-dependencies?

Can you patch old Sphinx support into numpy for the time being?

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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