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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 15:40:23 +0100
From: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= <berrange@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Require Python 2.7 or newer
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To: Philippe =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= <f4bug@amsat.org>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>

On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 11:37:36AM -0300, Philippe Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9 wro=
te:
> Cc'ing Eric
>=20
> On 06/08/2018 11:30 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > All of the supported build platforms documented in qemu-doc.texi
> > should already support Python 2.7.
>=20
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-08/msg05173.html
>=20
>   On 08/25/2017 11:40 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>   > Our choices about our dependencies are generally driven by "what
>   > are the versions available on the oldest distros which we wish
>   > to support building QEMU on", which typically is whatever the
>   > long-term-support versions of Ubuntu, SUSE, Redhat, etc are.
>   >
>   > Has somebody checked what that means for our Python version
>   > requirements?
>=20
>   At least this one:
>=20
>   RHEL/CentOS 6: Python-2.6.6

RHEL6 is no longer a target we care about and is being explicitly
broken as a result of the min glib bump:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg02104.html

Regards,
Daniel
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