html_sidebars deprecation clarification

[Stephen McDowell]

Hello,

I’m trying to fix the following issue: https://github.com/ryan-roemer/sphinx-bootstrap-theme/issues/179 <https://github.com/ryan-roemer/sphinx-bootstrap-theme/issues/179>

However, I don’t understand the deprecation notice: http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/config.html#confval-html_sidebars <http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/config.html#confval-html_sidebars>

Deprecated since version 1.7: a single string value for html_sidebars will be removed in 2.0

What does ‘a single string value’ mean here? What should the new specification be?

Thank you for any guidance!

-Stephen

[Stephen McDowell]

It seems the issue and the question asked here are unrelated. The answer is that `html_sidebars` previously could either be of type `str` or `dict` in `conf.py`. Now `html_sidebars` being a `str` is deprecated.

Apologies for the noise.