Support docutils-0.18; Meta directive and meta node has moved

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sphinx/addnodes.py b/sphinx/addnodes.py
index 8a020b02e..b43aa8152 100644
--- a/sphinx/addnodes.py
+++ b/sphinx/addnodes.py
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Sequence
 from docutils import nodes
 from docutils.nodes import Element
 
+from sphinx.util import docutils
+
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from sphinx.application import Sphinx
 
@@ -563,7 +565,6 @@ def setup(app: "Sphinx") -> Dict[str, Any]:
     app.add_node(start_of_file)
     app.add_node(highlightlang)
     app.add_node(tabular_col_spec)
-    app.add_node(meta)
     app.add_node(pending_xref)
     app.add_node(number_reference)
     app.add_node(download_reference)
@@ -571,6 +572,9 @@ def setup(app: "Sphinx") -> Dict[str, Any]:
     app.add_node(literal_strong)
     app.add_node(manpage)
 
+    if docutils.__version_info__ < (0, 18):
+        app.add_node(meta)
+
     return {
         'version': 'builtin',
         'parallel_read_safe': True,