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

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 06:46:37PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> 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 ?

Yep, but that means one more dev cycle - 4.0

We're free to drop Jessie once QEMU 4.1 opens for development at
end of April / early May.


Regards,
Daniel
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