Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecation policy and build dependencies

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> >> Normally I'd say it's only nice to also follow the depreciation policy
> >> for tooling as well to give people a chance to switch away, but with
> >> regards to Python2, I feel like we're in the clear to drop it for the
> >> first release that will happen after the Python2 doomsday clock.
> >>
> >> (So, probably 4.2.)

Makes sense to me.

> > RHEL-7 has Python 3 only in EPEL.

That'll change with 7.7 btw.  Beside that I'd say EPEL is good enough.

> What's the benefit of making sure that stable platforms can continue to
> run the *newest* QEMU?

Well, my development workstation runs RHEL-7 ...

cheers,
  Gerd