Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes: > 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?
Discussed before: Subject: Re: [PATCH] qapi: Fix code generation with Python 3.5 Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 07:54:18 +0100 Message-ID: <87lfq5s19h....@dusky.pond.sub.org> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-01/msg03855.html Short version: Debian != Debian LTS. We support Debian until EOL, not LTS. Debian 9 reached EOL in July.