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[PATCH] gnu: python-pydata-sphinx-theme: Fix build.

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From: Aleksandr Vityazev <avityazev <at> posteo.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 52721 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#52721] [PATCH]v2 gnu: python-pydata-sphinx-theme: Fix build.
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 18:17:57 +0000

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Hi,
On 2021-12-22, 10:53 +0000, Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> wrote:

>> the build fails because a package is required python-docutils < 0.17.
>
> Is python-docutils<0.17 truly required, or are the version requirements
> in the source code overly strict? If it's the latter, you could patch
> the source code to relax the requirements.
>
> The latter happens often, because library developers often don't know
> in advance whether the library is compatible with future versions of
> the dependencies.

For version 0.6.3 there is a file
pydata-sphinx-theme-0.6.3/docs/requirements.txt where the last line
contains:

docutils==0.16 # temporary pin (0.17 broken captions).

Also, the master version requires "docutils!=0.17.0.

So I created a patch that adds an extra phase.

[0001-gnu-python-pydata-sphinx-theme-Fix-build.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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-- 
Best regards,
Aleksandr Vityazev

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