Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v2] configure: bump spice-server required version to 0.12.6

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 6:33 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 06:21:35PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Looking at chardev/spice.c code, I realize compilation was broken for
> > a while with spice-server < 0.12.3. I propose to bump required version
> > to 0.12.6, released 3y ago, instead of adding more #ifdef.
>
> As mentioned last time this patch was posted[1], any changes in the
> min required versions should follow our supported build platforms
> support statement:

Sorry, I totally forgot that.

>
>   https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Supported-build-platforms
>
> Preferrably the commit message should list the version in each of the
> main distros, such as in a0722409bcb980ecdab8330d4c716a73c9fcb489
>
> At a glance it looks like Debian Jessie is likely to be the determining
> vote with 0.12.5 as its newest version.

https://repology.org/metapackage/spice/versions

Debian Oldstable
oldstable/main spice 0.12.5

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases

~June 6th 2020 (LTS)

But the current stable, Stretch, was released on June 17th 2017.

So we are stuck with spice server 0.12.5 until +2y, June 17th 2019 ?


>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg00905.html
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