On 16/09/2020 16.00, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 16/09/2020 14.30, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 08:43, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> We require Python 3.5. It will reach its "end of life" at the end of >>> September 2020[*]. Any reason not to require 3.6 for 5.2? qemu-iotests >>> already does for its Python parts. > [...] >> The default should be >> "leave the version dependency where it is", not "bump the version >> dependency as soon as we can". > > OTOH, if none of our supported build systems uses python 3.5 by default > anymore, it also will not get tested anymore, so bugs might creep in, > which will of course end up in a bad experience for the users, too, that > still try to build with such an old version. So limiting the version to > the level that we also test is IMHO very reasonable. > > Let's have a look at the (older) systems that we support and the python > versions according to repology.org: > > - RHEL7 / CentOS 7 : 3.6.8 > - Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) : >= 3.6.5 > - openSUSE Leap 15.0 : >= 3.6.5 > - OpenBSD Ports : >= 3.7.9 > - FreeBSD Ports : >= 3.5.10 - but there is also 3.6 or newer > - Homebrew : >= 3.7.9 > > ... so I think it should be fine to retire 3.5 nowadays.
Sorry, I forgot to check Debian. If I got that right, Debian 9 still uses Python 3.5 by default. So I guess that means we can not deprecate Python 3.5 yet? Thomas
