diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index 248505869..9a438b3ee 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ with open('../meson.build') as f:
 #
 # This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
 # Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
-language = None
+language = "en"
 
 # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
 # non-false value, then it is used: