Peter,
Also, did you check that the docs still build without warnings from a range of Sphinx versions and that the rendered HTML still looks the same ? These trailing spaces were largely added deliberately in commit 09ce5f2d6bd6739144, with the comment * rST does not like definition list entries with no actual definition, but it is possible to work around this by putting a single escaped literal space as the definition line.so we should be careful not to delete them again unless we've confirmed that we definitely don't re-introduce the issue that we put them in to avoid...
Then please drop the patch 2/2 for now and just keep 1/2. I will run more tests about this and see if I can find a way to avoid the need for having traling spaces in the file. They are a bit dangerous as most editors are set up to remove them, whch creates annoying changes all the time then. Axel
