Re: documentation build failure with python sphinx 1.6.3

On Wednesday, August 16, 2017 4:33:14 PM CEST Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Pavel Raiskup <praiskup(at)redhat(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, August 16, 2017 1:20:08 PM CEST Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Pavel Raiskup <praiskup(at)redhat(dot)com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Is there some work-around for this? We use python-sphinx-1.6.3.
> >>
> >> $ cat ~/src/psycopg2/doc/requirements.txt
> >> # Packages only needed to build the docs
> >> Pygments>=1.5
> >> Sphinx>=1.2,<=1.3
> >>
> >> You can use the requirements file included in the `doc` directory and
> >> build the docs in a virtualenv.
> >
> > Ah, unfortunately we can not do this in Fedora build system -- offline build
> > system built solely against Fedora's packages (no external pip packages).
> >
> > I disabled the build of documentation which means the doc won't be distributed
> > temporarily on Fedora (till the docs can be distrubuted by up2date sphinx).
>
> Of course if two different distros have different idea of the "up to
> date package" you understand we cannot make all happy, no?

Accepted. But I can at least mark this issue as "reported upstraem" :), as I
was not able to find any online reports so far.

> My only requirement for the documentation is that "it builds":
> providing docs that can build with a range of major Sphinx versions is
> outside psycopg mission. Feel free to provide a patch to build it against a
> more recent sphinx if that's useful for you.

+1 to moving against newer sphinx version (and forget about the older one).
Though I have no good skills to do it myself now... I submitted bug against
Fedora package to not forget about it:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482492

Pavel