linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC] docs: Deprecate use of Sphinx

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Message-ID: <87sfgq9fii.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:05:57 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC] docs: Deprecate use of Sphinx < 2.4.x

[PATCH] docs: Deprecate use of Sphinx < 2.4.x

The Sphinx 2.4 release is three years old, and it is becoming increasingly
difficult to even find a system with an sufficiently archaic Python
installation that can run versions older than that.  I can no longer test
changes against anything prior to 2.4.x.

Move toward raising our minimum Sphinx requirement to 2.4.x so we can
delete some older support code and claim to support a range of versions
that we can actually test.

In the absence of screams, the actual removal of support can happen later
in 2023.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
---
 Documentation/conf.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index a5c45df0bd83..44899be7b2cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ def have_command(cmd):
 # Get Sphinx version
 major, minor, patch = sphinx.version_info[:3]

+#
+# Warn about older versions that we don't want to support for much
+# longer.
+#
+if (major < 2) or (major == 2 and minor < 4):
+    print('WARNING: support for Sphinx < 2.4 will be removed soon.')

 # If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
-- 
2.38.1