On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Dmitry Shachnev <mity...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Sandro, > > On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:08:40 -0400, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> that's great news! I just recently (like end of last week) received a >> patch for basemap to address dates in the doc, and it seemed like your >> effort and their were not in sync. > > Looking at the patch in #790235, that is a different issue. > > It happens because basemap uses |today| in a couple of files, namely: > > http://sources.debian.net/src/basemap/1.0.7+dfsg-1/doc/users/index.rst/#L8 > http://sources.debian.net/src/basemap/1.0.7+dfsg-1/doc/api/index.rst/#L8 > > I am not sure if I can change everything in Sphinx for that. > Juan's patches set |today| to a value based on dpkg-parsechangelog output, > but that is obviously unacceptable for upstream Sphinx, and carrying that > as a Debian-specific patch will be an ugly hack. > > In your particular case (and probably other ones), I think it'll be much > easier to patch out uses of |today| than to apply Juan's hack.
well that requires to carry the patch in all the packages using |today| instead of adapt sphinx to what Debian wants to achieve (reproducible build) in the place that makes more sense: the tool generating the doc. YMMV tho >> Might just be enough to give them a heads up so they dont waste more time >> in fixing docs when a the new release of sphinx will do it once and for all > > The patch in Sphinx 1.3 was written by Chris Lamb, who is one of the most > active participants of Debian reproducible builds effort. So I don't think > there can be some issue with synchronization here. > > Also, as your example demonstrates, Sphinx 1.3 won't "do it once and for all". > > -- > Dmitry Shachnev -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cab4xwxyeafv8eh_cobfqdg+c5sb_6djnk52ylp7sj-lhsnf...@mail.gmail.com
