KeyError: 'soft-deprecated' with `make changes`

[syphyr]

Bug report

Bug description:

# Add a code block here, if required

The following command fails when build sphinx doc:
make -C Doc changes

The is causes by the following commit: 5b33424

Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/cbot/.local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/sphinx/cmd/build.py", line 432, in build_main
    app.build(args.force_all, args.filenames)
    ~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/cbot/.local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/sphinx/application.py", line 426, in build
    self.builder.build_update()
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
  File "/home/cbot/.local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/sphinx/builders/__init__.py", line 372, in build_update
    self.build(['__all__'], summary=to_build, method='update')
    ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/cbot/.local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/sphinx/builders/__init__.py", line 454, in build
    self.write(docnames, updated_docnames, method)
    ~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/cbot/.local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/sphinx/builders/__init__.py", line 735, in write
    self.write_documents(docnames)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/cbot/.local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/sphinx/builders/changes.py", line 61, in write_documents
    ttext = self.typemap[changeset.type]
            ~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
KeyError: 'soft-deprecated'

CPython versions tested on:

3.14

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Linked PRs

• gh-155095: Add soft-deprecated to site-packages #155096
• gh-155095: Fix docs changes builder for our custom directives #155100

[StanFromIreland]

Please provide the full logs, as it will include Sphinx and Python versions and other details. Does it only happen for you on the 3.14 branch? Our documentation builds run correctly, do you need patches to the documentation to make it crash?

[StanFromIreland]

Ah, I didn't notice you were running make changes (I forgot we still have that, I'm not sure we use it anywhere, out of curiosity what do you use it for?), I can reproduce it.

[syphyr]

Please provide the full logs, as it will include Sphinx and Python versions and other details. Does it only happen for you on the 3.14 branch? Our documentation builds run correctly, do you need patches to the documentation to make it crash?

This only happens on the 3.14 branch since it is caused by 5b33424

To reproduce, run the following command:

make -C Doc changes

There are no patches required to cause the build error. This is because soft-deprecated in not defined in changes.py in site-packages.

This fixes the build issue: #155096

[syphyr]

Im sorry, I should have tried to merge with 3.14 branch. My PR was closed. Here is a fixed version:

#155098

[syphyr]

Ah, I didn't notice you were running make changes (I forgot we still have that, I'm not sure we use it anywhere, out of curiosity what do you use it for?), I can reproduce it.

I used it to build a debian package that requires the changes file.