[Qemu-devel] Ubuntu Trusty as supported build platform (was Re: [PULL 0/8] Python queue, 2019-06-07)

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 02:21:57PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 at 14:11, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@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