autopkgtest: jstest in sphinx-doc test times out

[James Page]

The sphinx-doc autopkgtest is currently failing as the jstest component times out waiting for the search results to be evaluated.

I added a bit of debug to the Browser class to see what was happening:

gi.repository.GLib.Error: WebKitJavascriptError: file:///usr/share/doc/sphinx-doc/html/search.html?q=example:1:80: TypeError: null is not an object (evaluating '$('#search-results > p:first').text().match(/found (\d+) page/)[1]') (699)

It would appear that the actual search is not being executed so the parsing of the results continues to fail until the 40 second timeout is hit.

http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/s/sphinx

The test has been failing since 30/03/2020 and is blocking a few other packages from migration to the proposed pocket:

1.8.5-5 python-docutils/0.16+dfsg-2 2020-03-30 01:12:02 UTC 0h 11m 11s

Manually testing the search page - it appears to function correctly.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package sphinx - 1.8.5-7ubuntu2

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sphinx (1.8.5-7ubuntu2) focal; urgency=medium

  * Make Sphinx' documentation use HTML 5 instead of XHTML, to fix WebKitGTK
    parsing errors with shared-mime-info ≥ 0.11 (LP: #1871610).

 -- Dmitry Shachnev <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Apr 2020 20:02:54 +0300