commit 97eb2a7d77011605e8fc49e754cd371ead4366bc
author Brett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com> Tue May 16 14:41:00 2017 -0700
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Tue May 16 14:41:00 2017 -0700
tree 9d648b59ff6b017713bbd3e40b86f6fcbb901b78
parent 6924ed55c9807d69757e03bbe1caeec1104efacb

[2.7] bpo-30380: Pin the version of Sphinx used to build the docs (GH-1612) (GH-1619)

.travis.yml

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 16fd025..0bc552a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@
         - TESTING=docs
       before_script:
         - cd Doc
-        - pip install -U Sphinx
+        # Sphinx is pinned so that new versions that introduce new warnings won't suddenly cause build failures.
+        # (Updating the version is fine as long as no warnings are raised by doing so.)
+        - python -m pip install sphinx~=1.5.6
       script:
         - make check suspicious html SPHINXOPTS="-q -W"