[python-committers] build dependency on the branches on sphinx trunk necessary?

[Guido van Rossum]

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? I suspect few people here understand the
(apparently largely political) ins and outs of the rules that guard
inclusion into Debian -- I certainly don't, and I don't have the time
to become an expert in them. So rather than trying to explain the
rules to us, could you make a specific suggestion of something we
could *do* to fix your problem?

--Guido

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the requirement to build the documentation using a sphinx version from the trunk
> was merged to at least the 2.6 branch. This is clearly not a bug fix. Is it
> really necessary to rely on a trunk/unreleased version? Would it be possible to
> revert this change?
>
> Background: The Debian distribution requires distribution of files which can be
> edited in the preferred format, which excludes generated documentation. I can
> pre-build the 2.6 documentation, and then include it in the so called "contrib"
> section of the archive, but I would like to see it available in the "main"
> section. Including a copy of the sphinx trunk in the python package uploaded to
> the distribution would be a hack around this (it is unlikely that the sphinx
> trunk version will be available in Debian).
>
> For python-2.5, Debian was not able to put the docs in the "main" section,
> because a build tool with (in the eyes of Debian) "non-free" license was used to
> build the docs. It is nice that this is fixed now, but for now one reason is
> exchanged by another one why we cannot move the docs to Debian's "main" section
> of the archive.
>
>  Matthias
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