With RHEL 8 support retired (It's been two years since RHEL9 released), our very oldest build platform version of Sphinx is now 3.4.3; and keeping backwards compatibility for versions as old as v1.6 when using domain extensions is a lot of work we don't need to do.
This patch is motivated by my work creating a new QAPI domain, which unlike the dbus documentation, cannot be allowed to regress by creating a "dummy" doc when operating under older sphinx versions. Easier is to raise our minimum version as far as we can push it forwards, reducing my burden in creating cross-compatibility hacks and patches. A sampling of sphinx versions from various distributions, courtesy https://repology.org/project/python:sphinx/versions Alpine 3.16: v4.3.0 (QEMU support ended 2024-05-23) Alpine 3.17: v5.3.0 Alpine 3.18: v6.1.3 Alpine 3.19: v6.2.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: EOL Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: v4.3.2 Ubuntu 22.10: EOL Ubuntu 23.04: EOL Ubuntu 23.10: v5.3.0 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: v7.2.6 Debian 11: v3.4.3 (QEMU support ends 2024-07-xx) Debian 12: v5.3.0 Fedora 38: EOL Fedora 39: v6.2.1 Fedora 40: v7.2.6 CentOS Stream 8: v1.7.6 (QEMU support ended 2024-05-17) CentOS Stream 9: v3.4.3 OpenSUSE Leap 15.4: EOL OpenSUSE Leap 15.5: 2.3.1, 4.2.0 and 7.2.6 RHEL9 / CentOS Stream 9 becomes the new defining factor in staying at Sphinx 3.4.3 due to downstream offline build requirements that force us to use platform Sphinx instead of newer packages from PyPI. Signed-off-by: John Snow <js...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> Message-id: 20240703175235.239004-2-js...@redhat.com Signed-off-by: John Snow <js...@redhat.com> --- docs/conf.py | 7 +++---- pythondeps.toml | 2 +- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py index aae0304ac6e..876f6768815 100644 --- a/docs/conf.py +++ b/docs/conf.py @@ -53,10 +53,9 @@ # If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here. # -# Sphinx 1.5 and earlier can't build our docs because they are too -# picky about the syntax of the argument to the option:: directive -# (see Sphinx bugs #646, #3366). -needs_sphinx = '1.6' +# 3.4.3 is the oldest version of Sphinx that ships on a platform we +# pledge build support for. +needs_sphinx = '3.4.3' # Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be # extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom diff --git a/pythondeps.toml b/pythondeps.toml index 6aba0c9daaa..f6e590fdd86 100644 --- a/pythondeps.toml +++ b/pythondeps.toml @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ meson = { accepted = ">=1.1.0", installed = "1.2.3", canary = "meson" } [docs] # Please keep the installed versions in sync with docs/requirements.txt -sphinx = { accepted = ">=1.6", installed = "5.3.0", canary = "sphinx-build" } +sphinx = { accepted = ">=3.4.3", installed = "5.3.0", canary = "sphinx-build" } sphinx_rtd_theme = { accepted = ">=0.5", installed = "1.1.1" } [avocado] -- 2.45.0
