The doc/arm/requirements.txt file is the single source of truth when it
comes to Sphinx tools versions used to build documentation via
util/release-tarball-comparison.sh.
Make the Sphinx version listed in doc/arm/requirements.txt match the
version currently used in GitLab CI, so that Read the Docs builds the
documentation using the same Python software versions as those used in
GitLab CI.
This seems to be most appropriate way to ensure consistency between
release tarballs and public presentation on ReadTheDocs.
Previous attempt with removing docutils constraint, which relied on pip
depedency solver to pick the same packages as in CI was flawed. RTD
installs a bit different set of packages so it was inherently
unreliable.
As a result RTD pulled in sphinx-rtd-theme==0.4.3 while CI
had 1.0.0, and this inconsistency caused Table of Contents in Release
Notes to render incorrectly. Previous solution was to downgrade
docutils to < 0.17, but I think we should rather pin exact versions.
For the long history of messing with versions read also
isc-projects/bind9@2a8eda0084isc-projects/images@d4435b97beisc-projects/bind9@6a2daddf5b
Currently our CI images we use to build docs (which subsequently get
into release tarballs) are using docutils 0.17.1, which is latest version
which fulfills Sphinx 4.5.0 requirement for docutils < 0.18.
The old requirement for docutils < 0.17 was causing discrepancy between
the way we build release artifacts and the docs on ReadTheDocs.org which
uses doc/arm/requirements.txt from our repo.
Remove the limit for RDT with hope that it will pull latest permissible
version of docutils.
For the long history of messing with docutils version read also
isc-projects/images@d4435b97beisc-projects/bind9@6a2daddf5b
Commit bdb777b2a2 updated the man pages
to contents produced using:
- Sphinx 4.0.2
- sphinx-rtd-theme 0.5.2
- docutils 0.17.1
However, sphinx-rtd-theme 0.5.2 is incompatible with versions 0.17+ of
the docutils package. This problem was addressed in the Docker image
used for building man pages by downgrading the docutils package to
version 0.16.
Regenerate the man pages again, this time using:
- Sphinx 4.0.2
- sphinx-rtd-theme 0.5.2
- docutils 0.16
This is necessary to prevent the "docs" GitLab CI job from failing.
By default readthedocs.org uses Sphinx 1.8.5, but MR !4563 has
introduced depedency on ReferenceRole class which is available only in
Sphinx 2.0.0.
Path to doc/arm/requirements.txt needs to be configured in
readthedocs.org.
