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

[Thomas Goirand]

On 12/22/19 10:22 PM, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> 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 The current version packaged in Debian is very outdated,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

At this point in time, I'm not sure if it is worth spending even one
second on the Python 2 version of Sphinx. :)

Thanks for taking care of the Sphinx packaging, I can feel the pain...

Thomas