The recent docutils 0.17 release has some incompatibility issues with sphinx_rtd_theme which causes things like, for example bulleted lists, to be rendered incorrectly (https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme/issues/1115). The PR ensures that we're using the latest sphinx_rtd_theme release, which handles pinning docutils<0.17.
NOTE: The reason I'm proposing we pin sphinx_rtd_theme instead of docutils directly is that I recently discovered readthedocs.org implicitly pins sphinx-rtd-theme<0.5 (xref https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/issues/8230), which can lead to discrepancies between local and remote documentation builds. Pinning sphinx_rtd_theme >= 0.5.2 as this PR suggests will allow us to both avoid the docutils=0.17 rendering issue as well as minimize discrepancies between local builds and what happends on readthedocs.org
The recent
docutils0.17 release has some incompatibility issues withsphinx_rtd_themewhich causes things like, for example bulleted lists, to be rendered incorrectly (https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme/issues/1115). The PR ensures that we're using the latestsphinx_rtd_themerelease, which handles pinningdocutils<0.17.NOTE: The reason I'm proposing we pin
sphinx_rtd_themeinstead ofdocutilsdirectly is that I recently discovered readthedocs.org implicitly pinssphinx-rtd-theme<0.5(xref https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/issues/8230), which can lead to discrepancies between local and remote documentation builds. Pinningsphinx_rtd_theme >= 0.5.2as this PR suggests will allow us to both avoid thedocutils=0.17rendering issue as well as minimize discrepancies between local builds and what happends on readthedocs.org