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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2020-12-01 01:41:56 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2020-12-11 23:53:38 +0300
commit13fef8ef9fb81d338761430003726cd256e28d34 (patch)
tree582896bc4dd2558dd132dd961f15c3a379841b6e /Documentation/conf.py
parentab9e1ac49b478a2044eba66089bd2742914dd5af (diff)
downloadlinux-13fef8ef9fb81d338761430003726cd256e28d34.tar.xz
docs: Note that sphinx 1.7 will be required soon
The time has come to drop support for some truly ancient versions of sphinx; put in a warning now. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ if major >= 3:
else:
extensions.append('cdomain')
+ if major == 1 and minor < 7:
+ sys.stderr.write('WARNING: Sphinx 1.7 or greater will be required as of '
+ 'the 5.12 release\n')
# Ensure that autosectionlabel will produce unique names
autosectionlabel_prefix_document = True