[Catalog-sig] ReST not rendered for sphinxcontrib-issuetracker

Sebastian Wiesner lunaryorn at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 19 11:59:53 CEST 2012


2012/6/18 Sebastian Wiesner <lunaryorn at googlemail.com>:
> 2012/6/18 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:
>> On 18.06.2012 19:47, Sebastian Wiesner wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> the long description of sphinxcontrib-issuetracker [1] is not properly
>>> rendered into HTML, though it is syntactically correct ReST, "python
>>> setup.py --long-description | rst2html > /dev/null" doesn't show
>>> warnings or errors.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> The PyPI rendering has restrictions as to what you can do in the ReST,
>> see
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/loewis/pypi/src/0bcc875f5130/description_utils.py
>>
>> Most likely, it fails some of the restrictions.
>
> I searched for the PyPI sources to debug the problem, but failed to
> find them. Thanks for pointing me to them, now I can debug this
> problem.

I was able to fix the rendering based on the source code you linked.
The cause was a missing colon in a link, causing the scheme check to
fail.

Thanks for your help.


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