latex_mods.py extension breaks with Sphinx 1.5

[newville]

Sphinx 1.5 refactored writers/latex.py significantly, breaking extensions\latex_mods.py at line 17:

  sphinx.writers.latex.HEADER = sphinx.writers.latex.HEADER.replace('\usepackage{sphinx}', '')

as HEADER is no longer used. It looks like solution is to replace the default latex template with one in _templates\latex.tex_t.

[getreu]

same with Sphinx v1.5.3

[getreu]

And 2 more warnings...

Running Sphinx v1.5.3
loading pickled environment... not yet created
WARNING: latex_elements['footer'] is deprecated. Use latex_elements['preamble'] instead.
building [mo]: all of 0 po files
building [html]: all source files
updating environment: 13 added, 0 changed, 0 removed
reading sources... [100%] index                                                                                                                                                                      
/home/getreu/Downloads/tmp/sphinxtr-master/ch-intro/index.rst:None: WARNING: nonlocal image URI found: https://travis-ci.org/jterrace/sphinxtr.svg?branch=master