PR Summary

We have pinned sphinx<2 on the 2.2.x branch. As a follow-up we also have to pin docutils<0.16.

Docutils 0.16 introduced FutureWarnings on node list access:

/home/circleci/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/sphinx/util/nodes.py:94: FutureWarning:    The iterable returned by Node.traverse()   will become an iterator instead of a list in Docutils > 0.16.

https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/mailman/message/36765733/

Code that circumvents these warnings was only introduced in sphinx 2.3 (sphinx-doc/sphinx#6887).

We have two options:

• either limit docutils to <0.16
• or pull sphinx for this branch up (which probably needs additional backports, because we had a reason to pin sphinx.

The former seems far easier and is thus what this PR does.

This is required to get 2.2.x docs build and in particular the prerequisite for#16352.