Hi!
Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> skribis:
> 'python2-sphinx' is obsolete and increasingly a maintenance burden,
> because we need to keep special versions around just to make it build.
>
> The only reason we have this package is because it gets pulled in
> automatically when using (package-with-python2 ...) on a Python 3
> package that has 'python-sphinx' in inputs.
What about this evil hack?
diff --git a/gnu/packages/sphinx.scm b/gnu/packages/sphinx.scm
index 323d5b4457..66306e97fc 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/sphinx.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/sphinx.scm
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
for Python projects or other documents consisting of multiple reStructuredText
sources.")
(license license:bsd-2)
- (properties `((python2-variant . ,(delay python2-sphinx))))))
+ (properties `((python2-variant . ,(delay python-sphinx))))))
;; Sphinx 2 does not support Python 2, so we stick with this older version here.
;; Remove this package once python2-pbcore no longer requires it.
The effect should be that ‘package-with-python2’ always keeps
‘python-sphinx’ unchanged. (It’s a double-edge sword.)
Ludo’.
