On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 10:10:20AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > Well yes, but it's the virtualenv workflow that produced build errors > for Ted; that's what would seem to need fixing? What would delight me if there was a fixed docutils and Sphinx version which is the **only** thing which subsystem maintainers need to test against. If it fails for that version, then I reject the patch; and if it works on that version (say, 1.4.9), and it fails on some other version that a Distro wants to use for its hermetic build environment (say, 1.7.5), I can tell them, "not my problem, feel free to send me a patch that makes things work for 1.7.5, and doesn't break on 1.4.9 --- or package 1.4.9 for your distro build systems." I don't really care what the mandated version is --- although given that Fedora and Debian seem to be using 1.7.5, maybe that's the right answer, and too bad for the enterprise distro build systems --- that's why they get paid the big bucks. I just want to know what I'm obliged to test against. So if Documentation/sphinx/requirements.txt is the only thing which is guaranteed to work, that's fine. But it might be good to document that somewhere. - Ted
