From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cloud.peff.net (cloud.peff.net [217.216.95.84]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2B26747A896 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=217.216.95.84 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1791969526; cv=none; b=op1pFeUIpU25/tBpJBfS8Yo068fnZXhyPR06qt5MjM3THKBeNJ4Q/fRFPQ8LnOKeYvb2FqKEwn9eQJIudVTa0fpvGlARPnL/J2zsoqlonSm73klITFHxjaRaTj/6ochE5OJmSBG6+FeDmM4bYrE4BPwtOGzKNcBG1NjmrYnAYBs= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1791969526; c=relaxed/simple; bh=wAuBuuDjE260Mt/Zrs9JJ1F0I49gC6uj/dxrZBESwk4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=UUxrOXrCsGmpbc8kKvVWra2W4/dTnZE2GfhBIWbYQuorrimkrz0TrJgsaQKp0yzgPnniPQJdMNtaFBlrhxBYFEKi8ytYLNxshqbBVIntC0EPTkr6pgqEH2D9LYyDOEdVlfPGnNoyVcROh+KdzLn0ZKlLo1JEypaQm1OBRuXrt7U= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=peff.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=peff.net; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=peff.net header.i=@peff.net header.b=LX4Irx6G; arc=none smtp.client-ip=217.216.95.84 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=peff.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=peff.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=peff.net header.i=@peff.net header.b="LX4Irx6G" Received: (qmail 68922 invoked by uid 106); 14 Oct 2026 09:18:44 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=peff.net; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=20240930; bh=wAuBuuDjE260Mt/Zrs9JJ1F0I49gC6uj/dxrZBESwk4=; b=LX4Irx6G0TwiluDCeBIKH5D0hkp1i73kX+yt5iPo0b/LztwvbcjnE+EocUvg8rzj2MXuwKhHMCjWo97HOiBIzOZz5AzlP3S2NikHsu80mIJafK3QDwxoTHJzfwZI7GZXDbEPmOP7He1NuwhT77J9X5q7GSIb6CJ88uDeFxp9XEJEGsVVFC03Wp9+YLmJrFZxJWFuLGKi4GZprqA4p8eRZj2wKxk5ygdyEWswqsFSkPzOh3dHESyzQMyU2/37afFzl3p2ZfFPCMOy57v4yffVDH8XqMy1yIdL0q+HlJ4mhbtiJIO2e6kMkBwY2x9MvIQP0ZLeSHSS/51BrQJgMp3A7w== Received: from Unknown (HELO peff.net) (10.0.1.2) by cloud.peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:18:44 +0000 Authentication-Results: cloud.peff.net; auth=none Received: (qmail 35674 invoked by uid 111); 14 Oct 2026 09:18:48 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.94) with (TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:18:48 -0400 Authentication-Results: peff.net; auth=none Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:18:43 -0400 From: Jeff King To: Patrick Steinhardt Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Todd Zullinger , SZEDER =?utf-8?B?R8OhYm9y?= Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/8] ci: switch away from EOL'd Ubuntu version in linux-feature-testbed Message-ID: <20261014091843.GE1341124@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20261014-pks-ci-housekeeping-v3-0-04c24e1f480d@pks.im> <20261014-pks-ci-housekeeping-v3-6-04c24e1f480d@pks.im> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20261014-pks-ci-housekeeping-v3-6-04c24e1f480d@pks.im> On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 10:30:32AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > The "linux-feature-testbed" job still uses Ubuntu 20.04, which is end of > life nowadays and starting to show some cracks. Switch it over to use > the "latest" tag instead so that we don't have to constantly update it > anymore. > > Now arguably, this reduces test coverage for old versions of Ubuntu. > But "latest" at least points to the most up-to-date LTS release of > Ubuntu, compared to the "rolling" tag that uses the latest release > regardless of the LTS status. So while "latest" and "rolling" are the > same right now, that's not always the case. > > Furthermore, we have other jobs that test with ancient versions of > Linux, like for example the one that uses AlmaLinux 8 (2021, originally > tracking RHEL 8 from 2019) or Debian 12 (2023). Yep, nicely explained and I agree this is a good direction. -Peff