Docs won't build locally with latest sphinx-autoapi in fresh environment

[garrison]

What happened?

I tried to build the docs locally in a fresh clone and virtualenv:

git clone [...]
cd quimb/docs
pip install '..[docs]'
make html

but I received an error.

Extension error (autoapi.extension):
Handler <function run_autoapi at 0x7f658abf6660> for event 'builder-inited' threw an exception (exception: module 'sphinx.util' has no attribute 'status_iterator')
make: *** [Makefile:20: html] Error 2

Everything works if I downgrade to sphinx-autoapi==3.2.0 from the latest (3.3.1). I have not yet tried intermediate versions in a fresh clone.

What did you expect to happen?

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Minimal Complete Verifiable Example

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Relevant log output

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Anything else we need to know?

I opened this issue to track it, and also in case you ever witness the same problem. I am not necessarily asking you to fix it.

Environment

I am building from the main branch. I experienced this on both an RHEL system and in an Ubuntu container.

[garrison]

Everything works if I downgrade to sphinx-autoapi==3.2.0 from the latest (3.3.1). I have not yet tried intermediate versions in a fresh clone.

Update: I was able to get it to work with sphinx-autoapi==3.3.0, too. The only substantial change between that and the broken 3.3.1 appears to be readthedocs/sphinx-autoapi@5d53f92. I think the actual problem is in some other package than sphinx-autoapi, though.

[jcmgray]

Thanks for the issue and looking into different versions @garrison!

It does seem to be some upstream problem but may be worth pinning some versions for the docs build.

Keeping this open for the moment.