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--- Begin Message ---Package: release-notes Severity: important Dear Maintainer, The release-notes package currently fails to build on Debian trixie, using Sphinx v8.1.3 - and this appears to be due to the 'extlinks' configuration in the conf.py file. It seems that Sphinx v6.0.0 became stricter[1] about pattern-replacements in extlink captions; this causes an error of the following format to appear during build: $ make html LANGS=en ... Exception occurred: File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sphinx/ext/extlinks.py", line 109, in role title = caption % part ~~~~~~~~^~~~~~ TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting As described in a relevant bugtracker thread[2] upstream, there are two options to fix this: either configure affected extlinks to contain the same number of replacement patterns as the URL, or alternatively set them to empty (None). If set to empty, the complete URL is used as the user-facing hyperlink title. For the release-notes package, where extlinks are typically references to manpages, I think it would be preferable to display only the manual short name as the link title, instead of a complete URL, so I'll offer a merge request on Salsa to update the captions to contain a single replacement pattern ('%s'). I have confirmed that doing so fixes the build and produces sensible HTML output using Debian trixie, and also that the change is backwards compatible to Debian bookworm and does not affect the HTML build output in that release. Regards, James [1] - https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/10471 [2] - https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/11094
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--- Begin Message ---https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/215 has been merged, so closing. Thanks -- Holger Wansing <[email protected]> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
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