Recently thetest_numfig_disabled_warn test case has been flaky; although some of the intermittent failures have been noted fordocutilsHEAD, I've also noticed it occurring with other versions ofdocutils too.

Some example failure logs include:

docutilsHEAD:https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/actions/runs/18772174723/job/53603139421#step:10:4828
docutilsv0.20:https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/actions/runs/19662374866/job/56311219423#step:10:4879

This pull request experiments with removal of the use of a shared build for the problem test case and another test that it shares with.

NB: I amnot certain that this will fix the problem; we may need to re-run the tests a few times with this in place (or perhaps GitHub Actions CI will fail first time after I open this pull request...?).

cc@jfbu @haampie

References

Related toProblem testing #13996.

Tests: isolate a pair of HTML buildnumfig test cases

dafc796

Copy link

ContributorAuthor

jayaddison commentedNov 26, 2025

NB: I amnot certain that this will fix the problem; we may need to re-run the tests a few times with this in place (or perhaps GitHub Actions CI will fail first time after I open this pull request...?).

(more specifically: this is because I have not determined a way to replicate the same failure locally)

jayaddison mentioned this pull request

Nov 26, 2025

9.0.0 release plan#14092

Open

AA-Turner added the type:tests label

Nov 26, 2025

AA-Turner merged commit828bdca intosphinx-doc:master

Nov 26, 2025

52 checks passed

jayaddison deleted the tests/isolate-flaky-html-numfig-test-case branch

November 26, 2025 23:25

Copy link

ContributorAuthor

jayaddison commentedNov 26, 2025

Thanks@AA-Turner - I'll monitor upcoming CI test results to try to get a sense for whether this has resolved the problem.

Copy link

ContributorAuthor

jayaddison commentedNov 27, 2025

@AA-Turner argh; I've noticed that I removed this decorator from the wrong two test cases. The test case I meant to isolate istest_numfig_disabled_warn.