On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 02:21:57PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 at 14:11, Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 01:58:50PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > Hi. This fails to build on one of my buildtest machines: > > > > > > ERROR: Cannot use 'python3', Python 2 >= 2.7 or Python 3 >= 3.5 is > > > required. > > > Use --python=/path/to/python to specify a supported Python. > > > > > > The machine has python 2.7.6 and 3.4.3. (It's an Ubuntu trusty > > > box; it's one of the gcc compile farm machines so upgrades to its > > > OS are not really under my control.) > > > > Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) was released in April 2016. Doesn't > > that mean Trusty is not a supported build platform since April > > 2018? > > Possibly, but as I say the gcc compile farm is what it is. > Regardless of the strict letter of the deprecation policy, > when we start running into issues with the set of build test > machines I tend to feel we may be being a bit over-hasty in > deprecating things.
I understand this as a request to make Trusty a supported build platform. Can we please update the documentation to reflect that, then? -- Eduardo