Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?

[Thomas Huth]

On 16/09/2020 09.43, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> We require Python 3.5.  It will reach its "end of life" at the end of
> September 2020[*].  Any reason not to require 3.6 for 5.2?  qemu-iotests
> already does for its Python parts.

I think the only reason for requiring Python 3.5 is that we still use
Ubuntu Xenial in Travis. We don't support Xenial according to our
support policy anymore, but we did not update to Bionic there since it
has that broken version of libssh.

Fortunately, since a couple of weeks, Travis now supports Focal, too, so
once we switched our .travis.yml to use Focal, I think we could start
requiring Python 3.6.

 Thomas