On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 03:17:12PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > The Sphinx folks are deprecating some interfaces in the upcoming 2.0 > release; one immediate result of that is a bunch of warnings that show up > when building with 1.8. These two patches make those warnings go away, > but at a cost: A minor correction, if I may and if I understand this correctly: 2.0 is not an upcoming release, but a current one (2.0.1, to be precise), and this means that in some distros (like, Arch [1]) `make htmldocs` is already broken for quite some time. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59688 > > - It introduces a couple of Sphinx version checks, which are always > ugly, but the alternative would be to stop supporting versions > before 1.7. For now, I think we can carry that cruft. > > - The second patch causes the build to fail horribly on newer > Sphinx installations. The change to switch_source_input() seems > to make the parser much more finicky, increasing warnings and > eventually failing the build altogether. In particular, it will > scream about problems in .rst files that are not included in the > TOC tree at all. The complaints appear to be legitimate, but it's > a bunch of stuff to clean up. > > I've tested these with 1.4 and 1.8, but not various versions in between. > > Jonathan Corbet (2): > doc: Cope with Sphinx logging deprecations > doc: Cope with the deprecation of AutoReporter > > Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------- > Documentation/sphinx/kernellog.py | 28 ++++++++++++++++++ > Documentation/sphinx/kfigure.py | 38 +++++++++++++----------- > 3 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 Documentation/sphinx/kernellog.py > > -- > 2.21.0 > -- Best regards, Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum) Senior Software Maintenance Engineer
