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and subject line Bug#1146167: fixed in sphinxcontrib-devhelp 2.0.0-3
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regarding python3-sphinxcontrib.devhelp: generates devhelp file format v1 which
is not understood by gnome-builder/manuals
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Package: python3-sphinxcontrib.devhelp
Version: 2.0.0-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream patch
Forwarded: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinxcontrib-devhelp/pull/38
Control: affects -1 + gnome-builder manuals python-mpd2
This extension produces an index in devhelp format, which is intended to
be readable by tools like Devhelp (in Debian <= 13), GNOME Builder, and
GNOME Manuals (which replaces Devhelp in Debian 14).
However, it currently outputs an obsolete version of the devhelp syntax,
format version v1 (distinguished by the .devhelp.gz extension), which
isn't parsed by the foundry library used by gnome-builder and manuals.
To be usable in those applications, the index should be in devhelp
format v2:
- file needs to be named ${NAME}.devhelp2 and uncompressed
- <book> needs xmlns="http://www.devhelp.net/book"; and version="2"
- <function> contains <keyword> elements with a type attribute, not
<function> elements
(At the moment python3-sphinxcontrib.devhelp seems to assume that the
version attribute of the <book> is meant to be the version of the
software being documented, for example version="3.1.2" for python-mpd2;
but if you look at a devhelp index generated by gtk-doc or gi-docgen,
which are the de facto standard implementations, you'll see that the
version attribute is always 2.)
An implementation of this has been proposed upstream in
<https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinxcontrib-devhelp/pull/38>.
Thanks,
smcv
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: sphinxcontrib-devhelp
Source-Version: 2.0.0-3
Done: Dmitry Shachnev <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
sphinxcontrib-devhelp, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Dmitry Shachnev <[email protected]> (supplier of updated sphinxcontrib-devhelp
package)
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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:41:09 +0300
Source: sphinxcontrib-devhelp
Architecture: source
Version: 2.0.0-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Python Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Dmitry Shachnev <[email protected]>
Closes: 1146167
Changes:
sphinxcontrib-devhelp (2.0.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Add a patch to output devhelp2 files (closes: #1146167).
* Drop ‘Priority: optional’, it became default in dpkg 1.22.12.
* Update to debhelper compat level 14.
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- Build-depend on dh-sequence-single-binary.
* Update debian/watch to use version 5 and Pypi template.
* Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.4.
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