Replace the hard-coded paths for various BIND 9 files (configuration,
pid, etc.) in the man pages and ARM with compile-time values using the
sphinx-build replace system.
This is more complicated, because the restructured text specification
doesn't allow |substitions| inside ``code-blocks``, so for each specific
file we had to create own substition which is sub-optimal, but it is
only way how to do this without adding Sphinx extension.
Converted using pandoc 2.14.2-9 on Arch Linux:
$ pandoc --shift-heading-level-by=-1 -f markdown -t rst README.md > doc/arm/build.rst
Plus hand-edit to remove sections other than Building BIND 9, remove
misindentation in section headers, and add a standard copyright header.
This commit converts the license handling to adhere to the REUSE
specification. It specifically:
1. Adds used licnses to LICENSES/ directory
2. Add "isc" template for adding the copyright boilerplate
3. Changes all source files to include copyright and SPDX license
header, this includes all the C sources, documentation, zone files,
configuration files. There are notes in the doc/dev/copyrights file
on how to add correct headers to the new files.
4. Handle the rest that can't be modified via .reuse/dep5 file. The
binary (or otherwise unmodifiable) files could have license places
next to them in <foo>.license file, but this would lead to cluttered
repository and most of the files handled in the .reuse/dep5 file are
system test files.
Some Sphinx variables used in the ARM are only set in Makefile.docs.
This works fine when building the ARM using "make", but does not work
with Read the Docs, which only looks at conf.py files.
Since Read the Docs does not run ./configure, renaming conf.py to
conf.py.in and using Autoconf output variables is not a feasible
solution.
Instead, extend doc/arm/conf.py with some Python code which processes
configure.ac using regular expressions and sets the relevant Sphinx
variables accordingly. As this solution also works fine when building
the ARM using "make", drop the relevant -D options from the list of
sphinx-build options used for building the ARM in Makefile.docs.
Note that the man_SPHINXOPTS counterparts of the removed -D switches are
left intact because doc/man/conf.py is a separate Sphinx project which
is only processed using "make" and duplicating the Python code added to
doc/arm/conf.py by this commit would be inelegant.
The ReferenceRole class is only available in Sphinx >= 2.0.0, which
makes building BIND 9 documentation impossible with older Sphinx
versions:
Running Sphinx v1.7.6
Configuration error:
There is a programable error in your configuration file:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sphinx/config.py", line 161, in __init__
execfile_(filename, config)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sphinx/util/pycompat.py", line 150, in execfile_
exec_(code, _globals)
File "conf.py", line 21, in <module>
from sphinx.util.docutils import ReferenceRole
ImportError: cannot import name 'ReferenceRole'
Work around the problem by defining a stub version of the ReferenceRole
class if the latter cannot be imported. This allows documentation
(without GitLab hyperlinks in release notes) to be built with older
Sphinx versions.
Address the following warnings reported by PyLint 2.10.2:
************* Module conf
doc/arm/conf.py:90:10: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
doc/arm/conf.py:92:12: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
doc/arm/conf.py:93:9: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
doc/arm/conf.py:143:31: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
doc/man/conf.py:33:10: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
doc/man/conf.py:38:12: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
doc/man/conf.py:39:9: W1406: The u prefix for strings is no longer necessary in Python >=3.0 (redundant-u-string-prefix)
Define a :gl: Sphinx role that takes a GitLab issue/MR number as an
argument and creates a hyperlink to the relevant ISC GitLab URL. This
makes it easy to reach ISC GitLab pages directly from the release notes.
Make all GitLab references in the release notes use the new Sphinx role.
The release notes were previously built as a separate document
(including the PDF version). It was agreed that this doesn't make much
sense, so the release notes are now included only as an appendix to the
BIND 9 ARM.
The ARM and the manpages have been converted into Sphinx documentation
format.
Sphinx uses reStructuredText as its markup language, and many of its
strengths come from the power and straightforwardness of
reStructuredText and its parsing and translating suite, the Docutils.
