This is my take on John's patches to improve Python detection and to prepare for dropping Python 3.6 support.
The main change with respect to John's work is that lcitool is updated and the container images for CI can install Sphinx via pip; this way documentation is still built on the CentOS 8 jobs. A smaller change is that patch "configure: Look for auxiliary Python installations" will only look at the $PYTHON variable if it is set, without falling back to a PATH search. This series includes the final patch to drop support for Python 3.6, but it makes sense even without it. Paolo Supersedes: <20230221012456.2607692-1-js...@redhat.com> John Snow (5): python: support pylint 2.16 python: drop pipenv meson: prefer 'sphinx-build' to 'sphinx-build-3' configure: Look for auxiliary Python installations configure: Add courtesy hint to Python version failure message Paolo Bonzini (5): configure: protect against escaping venv when running Meson lcitool: update submodule docs/devel: update and clarify lcitool instructions ci, docker: update CentOS and OpenSUSE Python to non-EOL versions Python: Drop support for Python 3.6 .gitlab-ci.d/static_checks.yml | 4 +- configure | 82 ++++- docs/devel/testing.rst | 78 ++-- docs/meson.build | 2 +- python/.gitignore | 4 +- python/Makefile | 57 ++- python/Pipfile | 13 - python/Pipfile.lock | 347 ------------------ python/README.rst | 3 - python/qemu/qmp/protocol.py | 2 +- python/qemu/qmp/qmp_client.py | 2 +- python/qemu/utils/qemu_ga_client.py | 6 +- python/setup.cfg | 11 +- python/tests/minreqs.txt | 45 +++ scripts/qapi/mypy.ini | 2 +- tests/docker/dockerfiles/alpine.docker | 2 +- tests/docker/dockerfiles/centos8.docker | 22 +- .../dockerfiles/fedora-win32-cross.docker | 1 + .../dockerfiles/fedora-win64-cross.docker | 1 + tests/docker/dockerfiles/opensuse-leap.docker | 22 +- tests/docker/dockerfiles/python.docker | 1 - tests/docker/dockerfiles/ubuntu2004.docker | 2 +- tests/lcitool/libvirt-ci | 2 +- tests/lcitool/mappings.yml | 77 ++++ tests/lcitool/targets/centos-stream-8.yml | 3 + tests/lcitool/targets/opensuse-leap-153.yml | 3 + tests/qemu-iotests/iotests.py | 4 +- .../tests/migrate-bitmaps-postcopy-test | 2 +- 28 files changed, 321 insertions(+), 479 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 python/Pipfile delete mode 100644 python/Pipfile.lock create mode 100644 python/tests/minreqs.txt create mode 100644 tests/lcitool/mappings.yml create mode 100644 tests/lcitool/targets/centos-stream-8.yml create mode 100644 tests/lcitool/targets/opensuse-leap-153.yml -- 2.39.1