diff --git a/0001-doc-use-add_object_type-instead-of-deprecated-add_de.patch b/0001-doc-use-add_object_type-instead-of-deprecated-add_de.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b1df15e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-doc-use-add_object_type-instead-of-deprecated-add_de.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From 8af04cf9a996eabdae67258e8b0590341ddc4971 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
+Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 16:47:47 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] doc: use add_object_type() instead of deprecated
+ add_description_unit()
+
+This is necessary to build the docs with sphinx-2.x.
+
+sphinx-2.0 removed the deprecated function.
+See https://bugs.python.org/issue34967 for similar changes in cpython.
+---
+ doc/source/conf.py | 8 ++++----
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
+index 07e67378c0..230bbdcbef 100644
+--- a/doc/source/conf.py
++++ b/doc/source/conf.py
+@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ def parse_event(env, sig, signode):
+ def setup(app):
+     from sphinx.ext.autodoc import cut_lines
+     app.connect('autodoc-process-docstring', cut_lines(4, what=['module']))
+-    app.add_description_unit('directive', 'dir', 'pair: %s; directive', parse_directive)
+-    app.add_description_unit('role', 'role', 'pair: %s; role', parse_role)
+-    app.add_description_unit('confval', 'confval', 'pair: %s; configuration value')
+-    app.add_description_unit('event', 'event', 'pair: %s; event', parse_event)
++    app.add_object_type('directive', 'dir', 'pair: %s; directive', parse_directive)
++    app.add_object_type('role', 'role', 'pair: %s; role', parse_role)
++    app.add_object_type('confval', 'confval', 'pair: %s; configuration value')
++    app.add_object_type('event', 'event', 'pair: %s; event', parse_event)
diff --git a/pygraphviz-swig.patch b/pygraphviz-swig.patch
index 400fb33..8fc7f6d 100644
--- a/pygraphviz-swig.patch
+++ b/pygraphviz-swig.patch
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
---- pygraphviz/graphviz.i.orig	2018-09-10 16:07:12.000000000 -0600
-+++ pygraphviz/graphviz.i	2018-10-11 11:11:44.010380342 -0600
+--- a/pygraphviz/graphviz.i.orig	2018-09-10 16:07:12.000000000 -0600
++++ b/pygraphviz/graphviz.i	2018-10-11 11:11:44.010380342 -0600
 @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ int       agisstrict(Agraph_t * g);
  
  /* nodes */
diff --git a/python-pygraphviz.spec b/python-pygraphviz.spec
index a92315e..ec6ced7 100644
--- a/python-pygraphviz.spec
+++ b/python-pygraphviz.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           python-pygraphviz
 Version:        1.5
-Release:        3%{?dist}
+Release:        4%{?dist}
 Summary:        Create and Manipulate Graphs and Networks
 License:        BSD
 URL:            http://networkx.lanl.gov/pygraphviz/
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ Source0:        https://github.com/pygraphviz/pygraphviz/archive/pygraphviz-%{ve
 # https://github.com/pygraphviz/pygraphviz
 Patch0:         pygraphviz-swig.patch
 
+# https://github.com/pygraphviz/pygraphviz/pull/191
+Patch0001:      0001-doc-use-add_object_type-instead-of-deprecated-add_de.patch
+
 BuildRequires:  gcc
 BuildRequires:  python3-devel
 BuildRequires:  python3dist(setuptools)
@@ -42,7 +45,7 @@ BuildArch:      noarch
 Documentation for PyGraphViz.
 
 %prep
-%autosetup -p0 -n pygraphviz-pygraphviz-%{version}
+%autosetup -p1 -n pygraphviz-pygraphviz-%{version}
 
 # Regenerate the swig-generated files
 swig -python pygraphviz/graphviz.i
@@ -85,6 +88,9 @@ chmod g-w %{buildroot}%{python3_sitearch}/pygraphviz/_graphviz.*.so
 %license LICENSE
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Apr  4 2019 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 1.5-4
+- Fix build under sphinx 2.x (#1696133)
+
 * Sun Feb 17 2019 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 1.5-3
 - Restore the tests subpackage (#1677978)