Mercurial 1.8.4 released!

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 07:07:34 CDT 2011


On Thursday, June 02, 2011, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote, On 06/02/2011 02:51 AM:
> > Neal Becker wrote:
> >> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >>> Full details here:
> >>> 
> >>> http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew
> >>> 
> >>> Available for download at:
> >>> 
> >>> http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-1.8.4.tar.gz
> >>> 
> >>> Binaries releases to follow shortly.
> >> 
> >> Build failed on linux fedora 16 (rawhide):
> >> 
> >> make -C doc
> >> make[1]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/mercurial-1.8.4/doc'
> >> python gendoc.py>  hg.1.gendoc.txt.tmp
> >> mv hg.1.gendoc.txt.tmp hg.1.gendoc.txt
> >> touch hg.1.txt
> >> python runrst hgmanpage  --halt warning \
> >> 
> >>    --strip-elements-with-class htmlonly hg.1.txt hg.1
> >> 
> >> TypeError: get_language() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)
> >> Exiting due to error.  Use "--traceback" to diagnose.
> >> Please report errors to<docutils-users at lists.sf.net>.
> >> Include "--traceback" output, Docutils version (0.8 [repository]),
> >> Python version (2.7.1), your OS type&  version, and the
> >> command line used.
> > 
> > Same error on fedora f15.
> 
> Some research will show that 1.8.3 also suddenly started to fail, so we
> can't blame Mercurial for that.
> 
> Fedora python-docutils is a pre-0.8 svn snapshot from May 17th.
> Mercurial works fine when that package is downgraded to 0.7.
> 
> You can file a Fedora python-docutils bug for changing the API, but that
> message should obviously go upstream. Martin might have some upstream
> contacts. If they insist on the change Mercurial will have to implement
> some workarounds.
> 
> /Mads

1. Trying to fight it would be difficult and might not succeed (since F15 is 
already released)
2. If this is the direction docutils is going that only postpones the 
inevitable.

Is is difficult to work around?  That seems preferable to me.


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