[Python-modules-team] Bug#861567: sphinx: 1.5.3+ breaks src:dask build

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Control: reassign -1 src:dask 0.12.0-1
Control: severity -1 important
Control: tags -1 +patch

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 07:31:26PM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hello, I'm not sure if this is a problem in sphinx or not,
> I noticed this failure on src:dask in Ubuntu, and it is
> reproducible with 1.5.3 and 1.5.5 in Ubuntu artful and Debian experimental.
>
> For some reasons the _static directory is not copied correctly during doc generation,
> and the build fails because of a missing symlink
>
> dh_installdocs -O--buildsystem=pybuild
> dh_sphinxdoc -O--buildsystem=pybuild
> dh_sphinxdoc: debian/python-dask-doc/usr/share/doc/python-dask-doc/html/_static/mathjax/MathJax.js is missing
> debian/rules:5: recipe for target 'binary' failed
>
> Can you please have a look and reassing back in case?

The documentation says that files and directories are copied; it does not
say anything about the symlinks. So it looks to me that dask was using
undocumented behavior here.

Also, it seems that mathjax is not actually used, so I am attaching a
debdiff to get rid of it (also uploaded to Ubuntu and forwarded).

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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