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

[Christian Grothoff]

Package: python3-sphinx
Version: 1.8.5-3
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

The current version packaged in Debian is very outdated,
even in unstable. Please consider packaging the current
upstream release.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages python3-sphinx depends on:
ii  python3            3.7.3-1
ii  python3-alabaster  0.7.8-1
ii  python3-babel      2.6.0+dfsg.1-1
ii  python3-distutils  3.7.3-1
ii  python3-docutils   0.14+dfsg-4
ii  python3-imagesize  1.0.0-1
ii  python3-jinja2     2.10-2
ii  python3-lib2to3    3.7.3-1
ii  python3-packaging  19.0-1
ii  python3-pygments   2.3.1+dfsg-1
ii  python3-requests   2.21.0-1
ii  python3-six        1.12.0-1
ii  sphinx-common      1.8.5-3

Versions of packages python3-sphinx recommends:
ii  make         4.2.1-1.2
ii  python3-pil  5.4.1-2

Versions of packages python3-sphinx suggests:
ii  dvipng                     1.15-1.1
ii  imagemagick-6.q16          8:6.9.10.23+dfsg-2.1
ii  latexmk                    1:4.61-0.1
pn  libjs-mathjax              <none>
pn  python3-sphinx-rtd-theme   <none>
pn  python3-stemmer            <none>
pn  sphinx-doc                 <none>
ii  texlive-fonts-recommended  2019.20190930-1
ii  texlive-latex-extra        2019.20190930-3
ii  texlive-latex-recommended  2019.20190930-1
ii  texlive-plain-generic      2019.20190930-3

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