Re: [PATCH] Drop support for Python 3.8

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

>  Hi!
>
> On 25/04/2025 17.13, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> writes:
>>> On 25/4/25 14:07, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>> From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>>>> Python 3.8 went "end of life" in October 2024 and Fedora 42 dropped
>>>> this version already, so the "python" CI job is currently failing.
>>>> Thus it's time to drop support for this Python version in QEMU, too.
> ...
>>>>    if test -z "${PYTHON}"; then
>>>>        # A bare 'python' is traditionally python 2.x, but some distros
>>>>        # have it as python 3.x, so check in both places.
>>>> -    for binary in python3 python python3.12 python3.11 \
>>>> -                          python3.10 python3.9 python3.8; do
>>>> +    for binary in python3 python python3.13 python3.12 python3.11 \
>>>
>>> The 3.13 test was missing in commit 45b14be9b63 ("python: enable testing
>>> for 3.13"). Preferably adding in a preliminary commit, otherwise mention
>>> in this patch description
>
> Yes, I'll add a sentence to the patch description!
>
>>> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
>
> Thanks!
>
>> Yes.  The patch looks good to me otherwise.  But John knows a lot more
>> about this stuff than I do; would be good to get his blessing.
>
> Seems like John is currently away from keyboard / busy with other stuff? I think we should go ahead and include this patch to get the CI green again, so I'll add it to my next pull request. If there is still anything that needs to be done on top, it can be done in another patch later.

Makes sense.  I assume you'll amend the commit message to address
Philippe's review.