On 1/13/21 12:28 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > Since documentation changes are backported to 3.8 and 3.9 stable > branches, if we increase the minimum required Sphinx version in > master, I would prefer to also increase it in 3.8 and 3.9 branches. > > I would prefer to not have to check manually if a doc backport PR is > still compatible with Sphinx 2 or not. If we skip some doc backports, > conflicts will become more likely with following doc backports. > > -- > > I looked at Sphinx and Python versions of Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora: > https://bugs.python.org/issue42843#msg384963 > > In my list, there is only Debian Buster (stable) which doesn't have > Sphinx 3 yet. It uses Python 3.7 and so would not be affected by > Python 3.8 changes.
That's not true. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS still sees updates to subminor Python 3.8 versions, having sphinx 1.8.5. Matthias _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/SN24BKRX3PIIYMGDGX563HHGZXTRCHUI/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
