Changes/Sphinx2

Update Sphinx to version 2 and drop Python 2 support from Sphinx

Summary

The version 2.0.x of Sphinx, popular Python documentation generator and framework, is expected to be released in early 2019. It drops support for Python 2. As part of Finalizing Fedora's Switch to Python 3, we update python-sphinx to 2.0.x and we drop python2-sphinx and related packages from Fedora 31 and further.

Package maintainers using Sphinx on Python 2 have three options:

• they stop using Python 2 entirely (preferred), dropping their python2 subpackages if not dependent upon by other packages,
• they switch to Sphinx on Python 3 for building their documentation,
• they stop building documentation.

Packages that use Sphinx on Python 2 on runtime are Sphinx extensions, themes etc. and will be removed together with python2-sphinx.

Owner

• Name: Your Name
• Email: <your email address so we can contact you, invite you to meetings, etc.>
• Release notes owner:

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 31
• Last updated: 2019-02-06
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Scope

• Proposal owners:

• Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Release engineering: #Releng issue number (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed)
  • List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

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Dependencies

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No
• Blocks product? product

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)