Re: [PATCH v4 0/9] tests/functional: Adapt reverse_debugging to run w/o Avocado

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

On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 11:32:58AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 26/9/25 11:14, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > On 26/09/2025 08.49, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > > Hi Gustavo,
> > > 
> > > On 26/9/25 07:15, Gustavo Romero wrote:
> > > > tests/functional: Adapt reverse_debugging to run w/o Avocado
> > > > 
> > > > The goal of this series is to remove Avocado as a dependency for running
> > > > the reverse_debugging functional test.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Daniel P. Berrangé (2):
> > > >    tests/functional: replace avocado process with subprocess
> > > >    tests/functional: drop datadrainer class in reverse debugging
> > > > 
> > > > Gustavo Romero (7):
> > > >    tests/functional: Re-activate the check-venv target
> > > >    python: Install pygdbmi in meson's venv
> > > >    tests/functional: Provide GDB to the functional tests
> > > >    tests/functional: Add GDB class
> > > >    tests/functional: Add decorator to skip test on missing env vars
> > > >    tests/functional: Adapt reverse_debugging to run w/o Avocado
> > > >    tests/functional: Adapt arches to reverse_debugging w/o Avocado
> > > 
> > > Out of curiosity, do you plan to post the final patch removing Avocado
> > > use / dependency?
> > 
> > Which other uses of Avocado are you thinking about? AFAIK, this test
> > here is the last one that used Avocado.
> 
> Maybe I was not clear. After these tests conversion, I don't see any
> more use of avocado, so we can remove its dependency on QEMU, right?
> Basically, in a final patch I'd remove anything related to:
> 
>   python/setup.cfg:37:    avocado-framework >= 90.0
>   python/tests/minreqs.txt:35:avocado-framework==90.0

The python code CI jobs all rely on avocado. In the python-qemu-qmp
repo John has a patch that drops avocado. That can be pulled over
into QEMU, but it is likely John will propose removing the python/
directory from QEMU instead and using a wheel.

Either way, this patch series doesn't need to touch python/ dir,
as work on that is in-progress separately.

With regards,
Daniel
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