On 17/10/2019 00.48, John Snow wrote: > > > On 10/16/19 6:42 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote: >> Python 3.5 is the oldest Python version available on our >> supported build platforms, and Python 2 end of life will be 3 >> weeks after the planned release date of QEMU 4.2.0. Drop Python >> 2 support from configure completely, and require Python 3.5 or >> newer. >> >> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> > > Seems like a good time and place to mention this. Kevin, you require > 3.6+ for iotests, which are -- at present -- invoked as part of "make > check". > > Do we care? Basically, this just means that iotests won't run for > systems that don't have 3.6+, which would be platforms like Debian 9 -- > which is why ehabkost is choosing 3.5 here.
I think it's ok to simply skip the iotests in case we run on a Python 3.5 system. Thomas
