On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:02 PM Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
Re: Dave Page 2019-04-11 <CA+OCxoyb3WKj5u+uV+A_4SK_7i15oK4dT01ziDJ5CPma5285zA@mail.gmail.com> > > Fwiw, this release broke compatibility with the sphinx version in > > Ubuntu xenial (16.04), 1.3.6-2ubuntu1.2. > > Hmm, that was changed in 4.4. I assume Xenial has an ancient version of > Sphinx?
1.3, as said above.
Oh, sorry - I parsed that as part of the Ubuntu version.
> Can a newer version be used for running the build? It doesn't need to be > there at runtime.
I'd rather not get into the business of maintaining a sphinx backport. Such packages tend to have a gazillion of dependencies for plugins.
I haven't verified the result, are the tables expected to look very bad now that I removed the :widths: options? It will be a little bit annoying to maintain that patch, but it's not really that bad.
The annoying thing is, they're not used at all by the HTML output you're producing I don't think. They're used by the latex builds like PDF.
Would it make sense to run the doc build in a temporary Python venv that has the newer Sphinx installed?
