On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 19:08, John Snow <js...@redhat.com> wrote: > I was curious about our actual version compatibility, so I did some testing.
Thanks for doing the testing. > 1.6.1 through 2.2.2 all appear to work just fine, but produce a lot of > warnings about a coming incompatibility with Docutils > 0.16. FWIW, I don't get this warning with the stock Ubuntu 1.6.7. The only time I did see it was when I'd managed to accidentally install half of Sphinx 3 to my ~/.local directory and I think it was the system Sphinx and an upgraded docutils or some other weird combo. > Conclusion: > > Required: >= 1.6.1 > Recommended: >= 2.3.0 I think that what we actually care about is the usual thing: do we build OK with the version of sphinx-build shipped by every distro on our support list? thanks -- PMM