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-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/sphinx.scm47
1 files changed, 46 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/sphinx.scm b/gnu/packages/sphinx.scm
index cbf0d21f51..e046885a6b 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/sphinx.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/sphinx.scm
@@ -101,7 +101,52 @@
 for Python projects or other documents consisting of multiple reStructuredText
 sources.")
     (license license:bsd-2)
-    (properties `((python2-variant . ,(delay python-sphinx))))))
+    (properties `((python2-variant . ,(delay python2-sphinx))))))
+
+;; Sphinx 2 does not support Python 2, so we stick with this older version here.
+(define-public python2-sphinx
+  (let ((base (package-with-python2 (strip-python2-variant python-sphinx))))
+    (package
+      (inherit base)
+      (version "1.7.7")
+      (source (origin
+                (method url-fetch)
+                (uri (pypi-uri "Sphinx" version))
+                (sha256
+                 (base32
+                  "0pkkbfj7cl157q550gcs45am5y78ps0h7q6455d64s1zmw01jlvi"))))
+      (arguments
+       (substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments base)
+         ((#:phases phases)
+          `(modify-phases ,phases
+             (add-before 'check 'disable-broken-tests
+               (lambda _
+                 (for-each delete-file
+                           ;; These tests are broken when using Python2:
+                           ;; <https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/4710>.
+                           '("tests/test_api_translator.py"
+                             "tests/test_setup_command.py"
+                             ;; This one fails for unknown reasons.
+                             "tests/test_correct_year.py"))))))))
+      (native-inputs `(("python2-mock" ,python2-mock)
+                       ("python2-enum34" ,python2-enum34)
+                       ,@(package-native-inputs base)))
+      ;; Sphinx 2 has some dependencies that do not support Python 2, so
+      ;; we keep our own propagated-inputs here instead of inheriting.
+      (propagated-inputs
+       `(("python2-pytz" ,python2-pytz)
+         ("python2-typing" ,python2-typing)
+         ("python2-imagesize" ,python2-imagesize)
+         ("python2-sphinx-alabaster-theme" ,python2-sphinx-alabaster-theme)
+         ("python2-babel" ,python2-babel)
+         ("python2-snowballstemmer" ,python2-snowballstemmer)
+         ("python2-docutils" ,python2-docutils-0.14)
+         ("python2-jinja2" ,python2-jinja2)
+         ("python2-packaging" ,python2-packaging)
+         ("python2-pygments" ,python2-pygments)
+         ("python2-requests" ,python2-requests)
+         ("python2-six" ,python2-six)
+         ("python2-sphinxcontrib-websupport" ,python2-sphinxcontrib-websupport))))))
 
 (define-public python-sphinxcontrib-applehelp
   (package