On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 02:57:37PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 02:53:55PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote: > > > > Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes: > > > > > On 16/09/2020 09.53, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > > >> On 9/16/20 9:43 AM, Markus Armbruster 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. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> [*] https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3510/ > > >> > > >> Not answering your question, but it would help to start a table > > >> of "oldest package released" versions, with our supported distributions > > >> as columns and package names as row. > > >> > > >> This way when new distributions are released (and oldest dropped from > > >> our side) we can add/remove a column and see the oldest version we aim > > >> to support. > > > > > > That's quite a bit of extra work - I think it's enough to look up the > > > versions on repology instead, e.g.: > > > > > > https://repology.org/project/python/versions > > > > Hmm are there any magic runes to limit the list to only the distros we > > care about? > > No, thats the hard bit. Basically have to search through the list looking > for the two most recent versions of RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc
I'm using the following command to query Repology from the command line: $ curl -s 'https://repology.org/api/v1/project/python' | \ jq -r 'group_by(.repo) | .[] | "\(.[0].repo): \(map(.version))"' | \ egrep -i 'fedora|ubuntu|debian|rhel|centos|bsd|suse|sles' -- Eduardo
