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Mon, 4 Nov 2024 06:36:14 -0500 (EST) Received: by vm-mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 0f1cb974 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Mon, 4 Nov 2024 11:35:51 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 12:36:04 +0100 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: "brian m. carlson" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Taylor Blau Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Improve CI testing of older systems Message-ID: References: <20241031234934.3451390-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20241031234934.3451390-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 11:49:31PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > In many cases, we're not testing some of the older Linux distributions > that we support. However, we _are_ testing some old Linux distributions > that we _don't_ support. That means that it's presently difficult for > us to make sure our code works on all the systems we want it to and that > we're not accidentally requiring newer versions of dependencies than we > claim to support. > > The first patch removes Ubuntu 16.04, which is out of regular LTS > support. The second removes the clause in the CI job for that OS. The > third adds several new CI jobs to make sure we're adequately supporting > older Debian and RHEL-compatible distros, and documents the dates at > which they lose support (so it's easy to know if we need to update > them). The GitLab CI-related changes all look good to me, thanks! The GitHub ones do, too, but I feel less qualified to comment on them. Patrick