On 7/2/24 21:59, John Snow wrote:
> With RHEL 8 support retired (It's been two years today since RHEL 9
> came out), our very oldest build platform version of Sphinx is now
> 3.4.3; and keeping backwards compatibility for versions as old as v1.6
> when using domain extensions is a lot of work we don't need to do.
Technically that's unrelated: thanks to your venv work, :) builds on
RHEL 8 / CentOS Stream 8 do not pick the platform Sphinx, because it
runs under Python 3.6. Therefore the version included in RHEL 8 does
not matter for picking the minimum supported Sphinx version.
...!
I think I can't mandate 4.x because of RHEL 9 builds though, and offline requirements.
> Debian 11: v3.4.3 (QEMU support ends 2024-07-xx)
Nice. :)
> diff --git a/pythondeps.toml b/pythondeps.toml
> index 9c16602d303..bc656376caa 100644
> --- a/pythondeps.toml
> +++ b/pythondeps.toml
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ meson = { accepted = ">=0.63.0", installed = "1.2.3", canary = "meson" }
>
> [docs]
> # Please keep the installed versions in sync with docs/requirements.txt
> -sphinx = { accepted = ">=1.6", installed = "5.3.0", canary = "sphinx-build" }
> +sphinx = { accepted = ">=3.4.3", installed = "5.3.0", canary = "sphinx-build" }
> sphinx_rtd_theme = { accepted = ">=0.5", installed = "1.1.1" }
>
> [avocado]
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Paolo