Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] docs: Deal with some Sphinx deprecation warnings

[Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>]

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 03:17:12PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> The Sphinx folks are deprecating some interfaces in the upcoming 2.0
> release; one immediate result of that is a bunch of warnings that show up
> when building with 1.8.  These two patches make those warnings go away,
> but at a cost:

A minor correction, if I may and if I understand this correctly: 2.0 is
not an upcoming release, but a current one (2.0.1, to be precise), and
this means that in some distros (like, Arch [1]) `make htmldocs` is
already broken for quite some time.

[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59688

> 
>  - It introduces a couple of Sphinx version checks, which are always
>    ugly, but the alternative would be to stop supporting versions
>    before 1.7.  For now, I think we can carry that cruft.
> 
>  - The second patch causes the build to fail horribly on newer
>    Sphinx installations.  The change to switch_source_input() seems
>    to make the parser much more finicky, increasing warnings and
>    eventually failing the build altogether.  In particular, it will
>    scream about problems in .rst files that are not included in the
>    TOC tree at all.  The complaints appear to be legitimate, but it's
>    a bunch of stuff to clean up.
> 
> I've tested these with 1.4 and 1.8, but not various versions in between.
> 
> Jonathan Corbet (2):
>   doc: Cope with Sphinx logging deprecations
>   doc: Cope with the deprecation of AutoReporter
> 
>  Documentation/sphinx/kerneldoc.py | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  Documentation/sphinx/kernellog.py | 28 ++++++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/sphinx/kfigure.py   | 38 +++++++++++++-----------
>  3 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/sphinx/kernellog.py
> 
> -- 
> 2.21.0
> 

-- 
  Best regards,
    Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)
    Senior Software Maintenance Engineer