Re: Sphinx version dependencies?
From: Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Fri Jul 20 2018 - 16:43:56 EST
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