Hello, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis:
> Since version 1.4.0, Sphinx has respected the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH > environment variable for the timestamps it puts in generated > documentation [0]. Awesome! > This patch series updates Sphinx to the latest version, 1.4.4, and > provides all the new dependencies. The final commit in the series > requires the new Sphinx. > > Why propagate pytz and snowballstemmer? Otherwise, many packages that > use Sphinx started failing due to pytz or snowballstemmer not being > avaiable. Rather than provide pytz and snowballstemmer to all those > packages, I propagated them from Sphinx itself. I can add pytz and > snowballstemmer to the Sphinx users if desired. Makes sense. > With this change, many Python 2 packages will become reproducible, at > least on a single machine; the only thing holding them back was the > manpage timestamps. > > These changes will require 142 rebuilds, mostly of Python packages, but > also of libreoffice (libreoffice seems to depend on *everything*) and a > few others. If the patches are good, should they go to master or to > another branch? You could push them to ‘core-updates’ as a way to save a little bit of build time. Thank you! Ludo’.
