Re: [docs] [PATCH] requirements: move Ubuntu-20.04 into unsupported category due to python

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On Fri Mar 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM CET, Paul Gortmaker via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@kernel.org>
>
> Bitbake commit 0d2e682d00df ("bitbake: lib/bb: Bump minimum python
> version requirement to 3.9" -- poky commit 67566c7410e1) means that
> Ubuntu 20.04 is no longer supported out-of-the-box as detailed further
> in the respective commit log.
>
> While it is true that it can still be used with buildtools, that can
> also be said for nearly every other unsupported distro out there,
> including Ubuntu 18.04 that we listed as unsupported some years ago.
> Hence continuing to list it as supported with the new python requirement
> in place does not make sense.
>
> So we move it alongside of the 18.04 entry, into the "possibly tested,
> but you get what you get" category.  And add an explicit mention of the
> buildtools, so people have a thread to pull on.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paulg@kernel.org>
>
> diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst
> index 93b95a7fb251..3d0d26e2f08b 100644
> --- a/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst
> +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/system-requirements.rst
> @@ -58,8 +58,6 @@ Supported Linux Distributions
>  Currently, the &DISTRO; release ("&DISTRO_NAME;") of the Yocto Project is
>  supported on the following distributions:
>  
> --  Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS)
> -
>  -  Ubuntu 22.04 (LTS)
>  
>  -  Ubuntu 24.04 (LTS)
> @@ -93,11 +91,15 @@ organizations publishing them no longer make updates publicly available:
>  
>  -  Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS)
>  
> +-  Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS)
> +
>  -  Ubuntu 23.04
>  
>  Note that the Yocto Project doesn't have access to private updates
>  that some of these versions may have. Therefore, our testing has
> -limited value if you have access to such updates.
> +limited value if you have access to such updates.  Also, buildtools

s/buildtools/:term:`buildtools`/, so users are hinted towards what this is.

I can make that change before merging if that's ok to you.

Antonin

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