Re: [PULL 0/1] Require Python >= 3.5 to build QEMU

[Alex Bennée]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 at 10:36, Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
>> At what point do we declare that NetBSD CI is broken and is no longer
>> considered a supported platform from POV of blocking the merging of
>> PULL requests ? It has been preventing the dropping of python2 for
>> quite a while now. It isn't the end of the world in this particular
>> case, as dropping py2 is mostly just a cleanup, but I feel like we
>> might benefit from setting expectations for ongoing platform maintenance,
>> otherwise these kind of issues could drag on indefinitely.
>
> It works fine for me, and it means we have coverage of a host
> OS we otherwise would not. To me that is definitely more important
> than being able to drop Python 2 support. Also, AIUI the problem
> that's blocking updating the NetBSD image isn't related to
> NetBSD at all but is a bug in some combination of QEMU itself
> and our test framework

These have been addressed in:

  Subject: [PATCH  v1 0/6] testing/next (netbsd stuff)
  Date: Mon,  4 Nov 2019 17:36:48 +0000
  Message-Id: <address@hidden>

but I have a non-trivial failure rate running tests (~20% of runs fail)

> -- both of those are things we need to
> fix anyway.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM


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Alex Bennée