Re: [PATCH] docs/conf.py: Remove usage of distutils

[Thomas Huth]

On 04/03/2024 12.18, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 11:10, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Using my shell script to query repology, I get:
> >
> > centos_stream_8: 0.3.1
> > centos_stream_9: 0.5.1
> > fedora_37: 1.0.0
> > fedora_38: 1.1.1
> > fedora_39: 1.2.2
> > fedora_rawhide: 2.0.0
> > 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
> > debian_13: 2.0.0
> > ubuntu_20_04: 0.4.3
> > ubuntu_22_04: 1.0.0
> > ubuntu_23_04: 1.2.0
> > ubuntu_23_10: 1.3.0
> > ubuntu_24_04: 2.0.0
> >
> > So CentOS Stream 8 is too old ... but didn't we stop supporting the distro
> > Sphinx there anyway since we switched to the python venv stuff last year?
>
> Not sure, but that does ring a faint bell.

I'm pretty sure: I was still using RHEL 8 on my laptop 'til last year, and 
the distro Sphinx stopped working at one point in time, since it was based 
on the default python there which is python 3.6 - and we stopped supporting 
that python version in upstream. So you have to use Sphinx from the venv on 
RHEL 8 / CentOS 8, and that seems to enforce a newer version of 
sphinx_rtd_theme if I get that right from docs/requirements.txt and 
pythondeps.toml.

 Thomas