Re: [PULL 0/1] Require Python >= 3.5 to build QEMU

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 08:25:03PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 08:12:01AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 21:34, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > The following changes since commit 03bf012e523ecdf047ac56b2057950247256064d:
> >> >
> >> >   Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging (2019-10-25 14:59:53 +0100)
> >> >
> >> > are available in the Git repository at:
> >> >
> >> >   git://github.com/ehabkost/qemu.git tags/python-next-pull-request
> >> >
> >> > for you to fetch changes up to d24e417866f85229de1b75bc5c0a1d942451a842:
> >> >
> >> >   configure: Require Python >= 3.5 (2019-10-25 16:34:57 -0300)
> >> >
> >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> > Require Python >= 3.5 to build QEMU
> >> >
> >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> I can't apply this until we've fixed the tests/vm netbsd setup to
> >> not use Python 2.
> >
> > Fixing tests/vm/netbsd is being tricky.  It looks like the
> > configure patch will have to wait until after QEMU 4.2.0.  :(
> 
> I've posted fixes for the netbsd serial install but there are still
> problems with the tests including what looks like a fairly serious
> failure in the async code.

At what point do we declare that NetBSD CI is broken and is no longer
considered a supported platform from POV of blocking the merging of
PULL requests ? It has been preventing the dropping of python2 for
quite a while now. It isn't the end of the world in this particular
case, as dropping py2 is mostly just a cleanup, but I feel like we
might benefit from setting expectations for ongoing platform maintenance,
otherwise these kind of issues could drag on indefinitely.

Regards,
Daniel
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