Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process/changes: Escape --options to fix Sphinx output

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 5:40 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We have long disabled the "html_use_smartypants" option to prevent Sphinx
> from mangling "--" sequences (among others).  Unfortunately, Sphinx changed
> that option to "smartquotes" in the 1.6.6 release, and seemingly didn't see
> fit to warn about the use of the obsolete option, resulting in the
> aforementioned mangling returning.  Disable this behavior again and hope
> that the option name stays stable for a while.

I think it was deprecated in v1.6, and removed in v1.7. There seems to
be code for printing a deprecation warning during v1.6, though.

> +# If true, Docutils "smart quotes will be used to convert quotes and dashes

Missing quote in "smart quotes"? Or maybe Saxon genitive?

Other than that, sounds good to me!

Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Miguel