Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] docs: Deal with some Sphinx deprecation warnings

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab]

Em Wed, 22 May 2019 09:45:59 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Wed, 22 May 2019 15:25:36 +0200
> Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Lets use 1.7 :
> > 
> > - no need for Use_SSI wrapper
> > - new log should work with 1.7 [1] --> no need for kernellog.py and
> >    additional imports, instead include on top of python modules ::
> > 
> >      from sphinx.util import logging
> >      logger = logging.getLogger('kerneldoc')  
> 
> I think we're going to have to drag things forward at some point in the
> not-too-distant future, but I think I'd rather not do that quite yet.  The
> cost of supporting older sphinx for a few releases while we warn people is
> not all that high.  So I think we should:
> 
>  - Put in (a future version of) my hacks for now, plus whatever else might
>    be needed to make 2.0 work right.
> 
>  - Fix the fallout with regard to out-of-toctree .rst files so that we can
>    actually build again with current sphinx.
> 
>  - Update Documentation/sphinx/requirements.txt to ask for something a wee
>    bit more recent than 1.4.9.

You should remember to also update conf.py (with currently points to 1.3):

	# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
	needs_sphinx = '1.3'

Also, if you touch there, you should also touch:

	./scripts/sphinx-pre-install

The change there won't be as trivial as just changing this line:

	$virtenv_dir = "sphinx_1.4";

as the script should now run sphinx-build --version, in order to check
if the version is lower than the new minimal version. It probably makes
sense to make it grep the version from needs_sphinx at conf.py.

>  - Add a warning when building with an older version that (say) 1.7 will
>    be required as of (say) 5.5.

It probably makes sense to add such check at the pre-install script,
and add a:

	SPHINXOPTS="-jauto"

somewhere if version is 1.7 or upper.

> 
> Does this make sense?

It makes sense to me.

Thanks,
Mauro