Re: [PATCH] docs: conf.py: drop xindy rule

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Fri Aug 29 2025 - 18:49:50 EST


Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The rule as-is is wrong, as it was inverted. Besides that, after
> retest building all repos with suggested LaTeX packages given
> by sphinx-pre-install, I was unable to reproduce the issues
> I saw with xindy in the past.
>
> So, let's just drop. If anyone reports issues with xindy, we
> may need to readd, but at the right way, e.g. {options}{pkgname}.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/conf.py | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
> index 8fcecdb927b1..574896cca198 100644
> --- a/Documentation/conf.py
> +++ b/Documentation/conf.py
> @@ -458,8 +458,6 @@ latex_elements = {
> "papersize": "a4paper",
> "passoptionstopackages": dedent(r"""
> \PassOptionsToPackage{svgnames}{xcolor}
> - % Avoid encoding troubles when creating indexes
> - \PassOptionsToPackage{xindy}{language=english,codepage=utf8,noautomatic}
> """),
> # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
> "pointsize": "11pt",

Applied, thanks.

jon