Re: [PATCH] python 3.5 compatibility

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 01.12.20 07:33, Markus Armbruster wrote:

> Which has oldstable status.  Good for running the old and stable
> software packaged by it (such as QEMU 2.8), and old (and hopefully
> stable) software of similar vintage.

It's still heavily used out in the field, and officially supported.
But that's just one example.

Perhaps I should add some more details on the situation: I'm using
(specially built) qemu with ptxdist/dkit - not the distro package.
The idea w/ ptxdist is that you just pull the trigger and it builds
everything needed for some project. Qemu is built specifically for
the configured target. Perhaps you've noticed I'm also doing development
of new qemu features - something that one doesn't want to do on old
versions.

> Have you considered upgrading to stable?

This would solve the problem just for me alone, not for others out
there, who're working w/ the BSP. And asking everybody (especially in
enterprise environments) to do a full release upgrade just for one
single tool (qemu) isn't someting that works easily.

If you insist in having python3.6 a hard requirement for qemu, you're
putting me into the situation of having to do lots of backport work
for quite long time (until everybody really did the upgrade). :(

This individual patch wasn't very complicated, but expect even more
(and more tricky cases) on the horizon.


--mtx

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