bpo-36007: Bump minimum sphinx version to 1.8 (GH-11887)

https://bugs.python.org/issue36007
8 years ago · a16ab00c0b
2 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
--- a/Doc/conf.py
+++ b/Doc/conf.py
@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
 # By default, highlight as Python 3.
 highlight_language = 'python3'

-# Require Sphinx 1.7 for build.
-needs_sphinx = '1.7'
+# Minimum version of sphinx required
+needs_sphinx = '1.8'

 # Ignore any .rst files in the venv/ directory.
 venvdir = os.getenv('VENVDIR', 'venv')
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-02-15-15-33-41.bpo-36007.OTFrza.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-02-15-15-33-41.bpo-36007.OTFrza.rst
@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Bump minimum sphinx version to 1.8.  Patch by Anthony Sottile.