[issue35472] python 3.7.2 rc1 bumped the build requirements for no reason

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[issue35472] python 3.7.2 rc1 bumped the build requirements for no reason

Julien Palard added the comment: Hi Matthias, I agree that for the smartquotes issue the 1.6.6 should be enough. But we had multiple small issues fixed in some versions of Sphinx. But mostly for translation and I don't think you're building the translations? Also the needs_sphinx is only th

[issue35472] python 3.7.2 rc1 bumped the build requirements for no reason

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Should we add '(subject to change in any release)' after # Require Sphinx 1.7 for build. Matthias, I presume you are on some Linux. Would a script to temporarily change conf.py to build the docs work for you? To be reasonably sure that 1.6.6 is sufficient fo

[issue35472] python 3.7.2 rc1 bumped the build requirements for no reason

Matthias Klose added the comment: "if one uses the doc Makefile venv target". which is not possible for distributions which are not allowed to use anything but the distro to build the distro. so why bumping the version requirement to 1.7 instead of 1.6.6? Afaicu this is the required version

[issue35472] python 3.7.2 rc1 bumped the build requirements for no reason

Julien Palard added the comment: Hi Matthias, Sorry to hear it's a pain for you. Can you explain in more details what hurt your workflow? We bumped Sphinx, as Victor said, to fix rendering issues in those documentation translations: zh-tw, zh-cn, fr and ja, so it's not a feature or an ideo

[issue35472] python 3.7.2 rc1 bumped the build requirements for no reason

Ned Deily added the comment: Julien can give the definite answer. But, sorry, I don't see this as a release blocker. We've had to bump Sphinx versions for a number of reasons as the documentation has become more sophisticated between cycles and over a release cycle. In fact, we're now usi

[issue35472] python 3.7.2 rc1 bumped the build requirements for no reason

STINNER Victor added the comment: "for no reason" I guess that it's related to this change: commit c03bf0ae794c3bec9b56f38164535fd1f5bfc04a Author: Adrian Liaw Date: Mon Nov 5 05:04:51 2018 +0800 Doc: Disable smartquotes for zh-tw, zh-cn, fr and ja translations (GH-9423) Extract: di

[issue35472] python 3.7.2 rc1 bumped the build requirements for no reason

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[issue35472] python 3.7.2 rc1 bumped the build requirements for no reason

New submission from Matthias Klose : python 3.7.2 rc1 bumped the build requirements apparently for no reason, now requiring sphinx 1.7 instead of 1.6.x before. This is a major pain, if you want to provide the build including the documentation on a stable release. Pretty please can we avoid