bpo-40204: Pin Sphinx version to 1.8.2 in Doc/Makefile (GH-19442) (GH-19443)

(cherry picked from commit 37a257c0ae0d4ba746397ae7584db887b175ab24)

diff --git a/Doc/Makefile b/Doc/Makefile
index 08013c0ef48c035112ecf8d3529a3b82795a00da..803d1c00aced251c4c30d6050d29714e41c9dbc1 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/Makefile
+++ b/Doc/Makefile
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ clean:
 
 venv:
        $(PYTHON) -m venv $(VENVDIR)
-       $(VENVDIR)/bin/python3 -m pip install -U Sphinx blurb
+       $(VENVDIR)/bin/python3 -m pip install -U Sphinx==1.8.2 blurb
        @echo "The venv has been created in the $(VENVDIR) directory"
 
 dist:

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-04-09-00-19-10.bpo-40204.K-S6RZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-04-09-00-19-10.bpo-40204.K-S6RZ.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..e08f36f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-04-09-00-19-10.bpo-40204.K-S6RZ.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Pin Sphinx version to 1.8.2 in ``Doc/Makefile``.