On 9/7/2020 4:31 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 08:43:00AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> On 2020/09/06 20:45, Aisha Tammy wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I've noticed that the sphinx in ports is *really*
>>> old and hasn't been updated for quite sometime.
>> For a long time it had an inactive maintainer listed, which is quite
>> offputting when updating a port, especially one that is more than just a
>> quick version bump.
>>
>>> I understand that its got a huge amount of reverse dependencies
>>> and can't just be updated at will, but I was wondering if it might
>>> be possible to add something like py-sphinx3 which is a different
>>> package and then is possible start shifting packages?
>>>
>>> I am trying to see if I should do this if there's any interest or if
>>> people would prefer to do it some different way?
>>> Quite some packages would be upgradable if sphinx is updated.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Aisha
>>>
>> It's only ~50 ports. pypy is a bit slow to build, the others are fast
>> enough. Better to do a standard update if possible, experience shows
>> that having multiple versions of a popular port is a bit of a pain to
>> deal with.
>>
>> If it turns out there are things which *import* sphinx that need a
>> python2 version we may need a temporary py2-sphinx port held back at an
>> older version. But if they only use the command-line tools (sphinx-build
>> etc) then that's not necessary.
> I did some work on sphinx last year which ended up being shelved since I
> only needed new sphinx to port Simon (simon.kde.org) which didn't work out.
>
> My diffs from back then are here: https://stsp.name/simon-port/
> One of them updates cmu-sphinxbase to the pre-alpha release 5 which
> matches what Debian is shipping in -stable. And there are new ports
> for some components of sphinx that are missing from our ports tree.
>
> I won't have time to deal with this myself. But please feel free to use
> these diffs as a starting point.
That appears to be a different project and unrelated to what we're talking
about. The Sphinx here is textproc/py-sphinx.
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