On 17/09/2020 16.55, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 04:10:55PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: >> 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? > > FWIW, Debian 9 EOL was July this year, if you only count the regular > lifetime, not the LTS.
Do we support Debian LTS? ... If not, we should maybe add a proper remark about that to our support policy...? Also, some of our docker containers (tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian9*) are still using Debian 9 and are now used in our Gitlab-CI for our MinGW cross-compiler builds (I think also in the Shippable-CI, but I don't use that, so not sure about that one) ... if we don't support Debian 9 anymore, we should update these to a newer version. Any volunteers? Thomas
