Matthias Klose schrieb:
Guido van Rossum schrieb:
I'm not sure I understand your request. Is it okay to build docs using a version of sphinx that is included in the distro? Is there a specific revision that you would like to see rolled back, or do you have a specific fix in mind?
the specific change was committed in r68428. I didn't check if reverting this causes regressions in building the docs.
It doesn't; I've successfully built the docs with Sphinx 0.5.1+ after reintroducing the try/except guards, so I've committed that as r68984.
A safe approach would be to only use build dependencies on a branch which were released before the first release of the branch. I assume in this case, the branch should stick with sphinx-0.5 and not rely on newer sphinx versions (or sphinx dependencies which were released after the python-2.6.0 release).
Since I can't guarantee that everyone will keep to 0.5 compatibility, it would be great if you could feel responsible for checking that it is still given from time to time.
Georg