[Docutils-users] Request for a patch release 0.19.1

[Matthias G. <mat...@gm...>]

Dear docutils maintainers.

A few months ago, I've reported a problem with sphinxcontrib-bibtex
(https://github.com/mcmtroffaes/sphinxcontrib-bibtex/issues/309),
which turned out to actually be a problem with docutils.
There is also a related Sphinx issue
(https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/10784) which shows that
the problem can also appear without using sphinxcontrib-bibtex.

The maintainer of sphinxcontrib-bibtex has kindly provided a patch
(https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/195/), which has already
been merged in the meantime.

I don't know the release procedure nor the roadmap of docutils, but
would it be possible to create a new docutils release that contains
this fix (and maybe other improvements)?

Thanks in advance!

In case you are wondering how the problem looks in practice, here is
an example: https://nbsphinx.readthedocs.io/en/0.8.11/a-normal-rst-file.html#citations

cheers,
Matthias