I'm not sure I understand your request. Is it okay to build docs using a version of sphinx that is included in the distro? Is there a specific revision that you would like to see rolled back, or do you have a specific fix in mind? I suspect few people here understand the (apparently largely political) ins and outs of the rules that guard inclusion into Debian -- I certainly don't, and I don't have the time to become an expert in them. So rather than trying to explain the rules to us, could you make a specific suggestion of something we could *do* to fix your problem?
--Guido On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hi, > > the requirement to build the documentation using a sphinx version from the > trunk > was merged to at least the 2.6 branch. This is clearly not a bug fix. Is it > really necessary to rely on a trunk/unreleased version? Would it be possible > to > revert this change? > > Background: The Debian distribution requires distribution of files which can > be > edited in the preferred format, which excludes generated documentation. I can > pre-build the 2.6 documentation, and then include it in the so called > "contrib" > section of the archive, but I would like to see it available in the "main" > section. Including a copy of the sphinx trunk in the python package uploaded > to > the distribution would be a hack around this (it is unlikely that the sphinx > trunk version will be available in Debian). > > For python-2.5, Debian was not able to put the docs in the "main" section, > because a build tool with (in the eyes of Debian) "non-free" license was used > to > build the docs. It is nice that this is fixed now, but for now one reason is > exchanged by another one why we cannot move the docs to Debian's "main" > section > of the archive. > > Matthias > _______________________________________________ > python-committers mailing list > python-committers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
