Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2020-09-16 at 09:53 +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 9/16/20 9:43 AM, 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.
> 
> Not answering your question, but it would help to start a table
> of "oldest package released" versions, with our supported distributions
> as columns and package names as row.
> 
> This way when new distributions are released (and oldest dropped from
> our side) we can add/remove a column and see the oldest version we aim
> to support.

In case you're not already aware of it, https://repology.org/ is a
very valuable tool when it comes to figuring out minimum versions for
dependencies.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization