Re: [Stable-8.1.3 05/55] tests/docker: avoid invalid escape in Python string

[Michael Tokarev]

02.12.2024 23:26, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 09/11/2023 14.42, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> >
> > This is an error in Python 3.12; fix it by using a raw string literal.
> >
> > Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

>   Hi Michael!

Hello!

> Could you add this patch to the stable-7.2 branch, too? I think it's missing 
> there...
Heck!  You caught me cheating! :)

It's not just this one is missing from 7.2, it's whole lot
of tests/ and python changes which aren't there and should
be picked up.

I think at the time I weren't picking these fixes to older
branches, thinking we don't support new things with old
releases anyway so it isn't necessary.  Later I has become
more confident and started picking up stuff more freely.

And this really made me curious, - why do you still use
qemu 7.2 branch?  This is an interesting (to me) question,
since these days, it feels like no one uses older branches, -
even 8.2 one which has been requested by ubuntu, - they
actually never used it, so I'm not really sure it is worth
all the CI minutes we spend on it.  In the past, 7.2 was
used for RHEL, now I think this usage is gone too.  So your
email made me.. really curious :)

I'm picking up this one and many other similar fixes to 7.2
(some require manual editing as usual).

And thank you for letting me know! -- without this, stable
wouldn't be.

/mjt