Re: cross-platform backup tool First beta v2.1.2b1 release towards v2.2.0

[Frank Crawford]

On Thu, 2022-09-08 at 19:51 +1000, Frank Crawford wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-09-07 at 20:14 +0200, Eric Lavarde wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 07/09/2022 18:37, Robert Nichols wrote:
> > > On 9/7/22 11:11 AM, EricZolf wrote:
> > > > Hello everybody,
> > > > 
> > > > This is a beta release so that many people can test before this
> > > > becomes the next stable release. All changes are documented in
> > > > the 
> > > > changelog 
> > > > <https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-
> > > > backup/blob/v2.1.2b1/CHANGELOG.adoc#new-in-v2-1-2b1>. Check
> > > > especially the changes (marked with /CHG/) which might impact
> > > > your workflow. Since the last alpha:
> > > > 
> > > >    * support for Python 3.6 has been dropped,
> > > 
> > > Dropping Python 3.6 means that it will no longer work in RHEL 8.
> > > That's very bad news.
> > 
> > Few answers to this:
> > 
> ...
> > 2. It doesn't mean that it doesn't work and I'm happy to make it
> > work, 
> > but by policy I don't want to support "officially" a version of
> > Python 
> > which isn't supported anymore (Python 3.6 _in RHEL 8_ is
> > supported).
> 
> Yes, which means as the packager in EPEL I'm unlikely to port it to
> EPEL7 or EPEL8, but will push it to EPEL9.

Okay, as Python 3.6 is workable, I'll build it for EPEL8.

It is likely I won't do it for EPEL7, as it is close to EOL and also
the recommendation is to only apply bugfixes, not enhancements, unless
someone specifically requests it and there are no missing dependencies.

However, I will try it on COPR.

Regards
Frank