Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 4.2 1/3] glib: bump min required glib library version to 2.48

[Thomas Huth]

On 23/07/2019 17.48, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Per supported platforms doc[1], the various min glib on relevant distros is:
> 
>   RHEL-8: 2.56.1
>   RHEL-7: 2.50.3
>   Debian (Buster): 2.58.3
>   Debian (Stretch): 2.50.3
>   OpenBSD (Ports): 2.58.3
>   FreeBSD (Ports): 2.56.3
>   OpenSUSE Leap 15: 2.54.3
>   SLE12-SP2: 2.48.2
>   Ubuntu (Xenial): 2.48.0
>   macOS (Homebrew): 2.56.0
> 
> This suggests that a minimum glib of 2.48 is a reasonable target.
> 
> Compared to the previous version bump in
> 
>   commit e7b3af81597db1a6b55f2c15d030d703c6b2c6ac
>   Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
>   Date:   Fri May 4 15:34:46 2018 +0100
> 
>     glib: bump min required glib library version to 2.40
> 
> This will result in us dropping support for Debian Jessie and
> Ubuntu 14.04.
> 
> As per the commit message 14.04 was already outside our list
> of supported build platforms and an exception was only made
> because one of the build hosts used during merge testing was
> stuck on 14.04.
> 
> Debian Jessie is justified to drop because we only aim to
> support at most 2 major versions of Debian at any time. This
> means Buster and Stretch at this time.
> 
> The g_strv_contains compat code is dropped as this API is
> present since 2.44
> 
> The g_assert_cmpmem compat code is dropped as this API is
> present since 2.46
> 
> [1] https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Supported-build-platforms
> 
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>

Sorry, my memory fails ... when did I review this patch?

 Thomas