Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v3] configure: bump spice-server required version to 0.12.5

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 07:59:32PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Looking at chardev/spice.c code, I realize compilation was broken for
> a while with spice-server < 0.12.3. Let's bump required version
> to 0.12.5, released May 19 2014, instead of adding more #ifdef.
> 
> (this patch combines changes from an early version and some of
> Frediano "[PATCH 2/2] spice: Bump required spice-server version to
> 0.12.6")
> 
> According to repology, all the distros that are build target platforms
> for QEMU include it:
> 
>       RHEL-7: 0.14.0
>       Debian (Stretch): 0.12.8
>       Debian (Jessie): 0.12.5
>       FreeBSD (ports): 0.14.0
>       OpenSUSE Leap 15: 0.14.0
>       Ubuntu (Xenial): 0.12.6
> 
> Note that a previous version of this patch was bumping version to
> 0.12.6. Unfortunately, Debian Jessie (oldstable) is stuck with spice
> server 0.12.5, and QEMU should keep building until after 2y of current
> stable (Stretch), which will be around June 17th 2019. Qemu 4.1
> should thus be free of bumping to spice-server 0.12.6 during 4.1
> development cycle.

Added to UI queue.

thanks,
  Gerd