Re: docs: requirements.txt has stopped working again

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2024, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> I looked into the root cause here. Sphinx since early versions
> (predating even 2.4.4) depends on packages such as
>
> - sphinxcontrib-applehelp
> - sphinxcontrib-devhelp
> - sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp
> - sphinxcontrib-qthelp
> - sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml
>
> but does so without any version constraints. Recently, all of those
> *packages* started first depending on Sphinx >= 5. Apparently this
> prevented installation of incompatible combos, but resulted in circular
> dependency issues in pip.

See: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/11567

> To fix the circular dependencies, all of those *packages* made the
> dependency on Sphinx >= 5 optional, but made the *extensions* in them
> app.require_sphinx('5.0') runtime. This happened in the past two weeks.

See: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/11890


BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel