There is an updated pull request by sgn against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/sgn/void-packages python3-Sphinx-split-out https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/17833 [WIP] python3-Sphinx: update to 2.3.1 - split out from python-Sphinx (2.x.x doesn't support python 2) - despite their license looks like BSD-2-Clause, their README says it's a BSD-3-Clause - python3-Sphinx doesn't depends on python3-setuptools (checked the code) A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/17833.patch is attached