Hi,
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 16:14:02 -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> Maybe upstream would accept a patch similar to what I've done before. It
> could map |today| to the value of an environment variable, if it's set.
> E.g. something like SPHINX_TODAY. Then pybuild, dh_python{2,3}, or some other
> infrastructure piece could set that to the parsed changelog value. Generally
> it wouldn't be set, so |today| would have the normal semantics.
Looking at the source of Sphinx' distutils/setuptools command [1],
I see that pybuild can already help here by including something like this
in its generated setup.cfg:
[build_sphinx]
today = {date from debian/changelog} [2]
Piotr, do you think you can add this?
This will leave out projects not using the setup command (and calling
sphinx-build directly), but such projects are mostly non-Python and thus
don't use pybuild anyway.
I can't think of any other "infrastructure place" we can add this in
(we have dh_sphinxdoc, but it is run after the docs are built and
installed already).
Of course, if someone thinks this is not enough, I can write a patch for
Sphinx to use an env variable.
[1]:
http://sources.debian.net/src/sphinx/1.2.3+dfsg-1/sphinx/setup_command.py/#L76
[2]: Sphinx uses "+%B %d, %Y" format for dates
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Dmitry Shachnev
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