[Stable-8.2.3 51/87] docs/conf.py: Remove usage of distutils

[Michael Tokarev]

From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

The macOS jobs in our CI recently started failing, complaining that
the distutils module is not available anymore. And indeed, according to
https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/ it's been deprecated since a while
and now likely got removed in recent Python versions.

Fortunately, we only use it for a version check via LooseVersion here
which we don't really need anymore - according to Repology.org, these
are the versions of sphinx-rtd-theme that are currently used by the
various distros:

 centos_stream_8: 0.3.1
 centos_stream_9: 0.5.1
 fedora_38: 1.1.1
 fedora_39: 1.2.2
 freebsd: 1.0.0
 haikuports_master: 1.2.1
 openbsd: 1.2.2
 opensuse_leap_15_5: 0.5.1
 pkgsrc_current: 2.0.0
 debian_11: 0.5.1
 debian_12: 1.2.0
 ubuntu_20_04: 0.4.3
 ubuntu_22_04: 1.0.0
 ubuntu_24_04: 2.0.0

So except for CentOS 8, all distros are using a newer version of
sphinx-rtd-theme, and for CentOS 8 we don't support compiling with
the Sphinx of the distro anymore anyway, since it's based on the
Python 3.6 interpreter there. For compiling on CentOS 8, you have
to use the alternative Python 3.8 interpreter which comes without
Sphinx, so that needs the Sphinx installed via pip in the venv
instead, and that is using a newer version, too, according to our
pythondeps.toml file.

Thus we can simply drop the version check now to get rid of the
distutils dependency here.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Message-id: 20240304130403.129543-1-thuth@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
(cherry picked from commit eb844330bd36ebdd4959053da08069d1e5d49119)
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index e84a95e71c..1b2afa241c 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@
 import os
 import sys
 import sphinx
-from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 from sphinx.errors import ConfigError
 
 # The per-manual conf.py will set qemu_docdir for a single-manual build;
@@ -165,11 +164,10 @@
 # Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
 # further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
 # documentation.
-if LooseVersion(sphinx_rtd_theme.__version__) >= LooseVersion("0.4.3"):
-    html_theme_options = {
-        "style_nav_header_background": "#802400",
-        "navigation_with_keys": True,
-    }
+html_theme_options = {
+    "style_nav_header_background": "#802400",
+    "navigation_with_keys": True,
+}
 
 html_logo = os.path.join(qemu_docdir, "../ui/icons/qemu_128x128.png")
 
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