diff -Nru sphinx-1.4.8/debian/changelog sphinx-1.4.8/debian/changelog
--- sphinx-1.4.8/debian/changelog	2016-10-03 14:24:50.000000000 +0000
+++ sphinx-1.4.8/debian/changelog	2017-05-15 08:02:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+sphinx (1.4.8-1ubuntu0.1) yakkety; urgency=medium
+
+  * Update jstests for compatibility with WebKitGTK+ 2.16.2 (LP: #1690574).
+    Now the title property can be no longer than 1000 characters, so we
+    cannot fetch the whole page using it. Instead, we compute the needed
+    numbers with JavaScript and then fetch them using the title property.
+
+ -- Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@ubuntu.com>  Mon, 15 May 2017 11:01:43 +0300
+
 sphinx (1.4.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream bugfix release.
diff -Nru sphinx-1.4.8/debian/control sphinx-1.4.8/debian/control
--- sphinx-1.4.8/debian/control	2016-10-03 14:24:50.000000000 +0000
+++ sphinx-1.4.8/debian/control	2017-05-15 08:03:06.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: sphinx
 Section: python
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org>
 Homepage: http://sphinx-doc.org/
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9)
diff -Nru sphinx-1.4.8/debian/jstest/jstest.py sphinx-1.4.8/debian/jstest/jstest.py
--- sphinx-1.4.8/debian/jstest/jstest.py	2016-10-03 14:24:50.000000000 +0000
+++ sphinx-1.4.8/debian/jstest/jstest.py	2017-05-15 08:01:25.000000000 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # encoding=UTF-8
 
 # Copyright © 2011 Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
-#           © 2013-2015 Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org>
+#           © 2013-2017 Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org>
 #
 # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 # modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
@@ -59,15 +59,19 @@
     def _on_title_changed(self, webview, user_data):
         contents = webview.get_property('title')
         webview.run_javascript('document.title = ""')
-        found = "Search finished" in contents
+        found = re.match(r"(?P<n_results>\d+) (?P<n_links>\d+) (?P<n_highlights>\d+)", contents)
         if found:
-            self._result = contents
+            self._result = found.groupdict()
             Gtk.main_quit()
             GLib.source_remove(self._id)
             self._id = 0
 
     def _quit(self):
-        self._view.run_javascript('document.title = document.documentElement.innerHTML')
+        self._view.run_javascript(
+            "var n_results = $('#search-results > p:first').text().match(/found (\d+) page/)[1];\n"
+            "var n_links = $('#search-results a').length;\n"
+            "var n_highlights = $('#search-results .highlighted').length;\n"
+            "document.title = `${n_results} ${n_links} ${n_highlights}`;")
         if self._time_limit < 0:
             self._result = None
             Gtk.main_quit()
@@ -79,7 +83,7 @@
     def wget(self, url, time_limit=default_time_limit):
         self._view.load_uri(url)
         self._time_limit = time_limit
-        self._id = GLib.timeout_add_seconds(time_limit, self._quit)
+        self._id = GLib.timeout_add_seconds(1, self._quit)
         Gtk.main()
         if self._result is None:
             raise Timeout
@@ -89,31 +93,23 @@
 # Actual tests
 # ============
 
-re_done = re.compile(r'Search finished, found ([0-9]+) page')
-re_link = re.compile(r'<a href="[^"]+?highlight=[^"?]+">')
-re_highlight = re.compile(r'<span class="highlighted">')
-
-def test_html(html, options):
+def test_html(result, options):
 
     class TestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
         if options.n_results is not None:
             def test_n_results(self):
-                match = re_done.search(html)
-                self.assertIsNotNone(match)
-                n_results = int(match.group(1))
+                n_results = int(result['n_results'])
                 self.assertEqual(n_results, options.n_results)
 
         if options.n_links is not None:
             def test_n_links(self):
-                matches = re_link.findall(html)
-                n_links = len(matches)
+                n_links = int(result['n_links'])
                 self.assertEqual(n_links, options.n_links)
 
         if options.n_highlights is not None:
             def test_n_highlights(self):
-                matches = re_highlight.findall(html)
-                n_highlights = len(matches)
+                n_highlights = int(result['n_highlights'])
                 self.assertEqual(n_highlights, options.n_highlights)
 
     TestCase.__name__ = 'TestCase(%r)' % options.search_term
@@ -125,8 +121,8 @@
     url = urllib.parse.urljoin('file:', urllib.request.pathname2url(directory))
     url = urllib.parse.urljoin(url, 'html/search.html?q=' + urllib.parse.quote_plus(options.search_term))
     browser = Browser(options)
-    html = browser.wget(url, time_limit)
-    return test_html(html, options)
+    result = browser.wget(url, time_limit)
+    return test_html(result, options)
 
 def main():
     import argparse