Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v2] configure: bump spice-server required version to 0.12.6

[Hoffmann, Gerd]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 02:54:09PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 06:46:37PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 6:33 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 06:21:35PM +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. I propose to bump required version
> > > > to 0.12.6, released 3y ago, instead of adding more #ifdef.
> > >
> > > As mentioned last time this patch was posted[1], any changes in the
> > > min required versions should follow our supported build platforms
> > > support statement:
> > 
> > Sorry, I totally forgot that.
> > 
> > >
> > >   https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Supported-build-platforms
> > >
> > > Preferrably the commit message should list the version in each of the
> > > main distros, such as in a0722409bcb980ecdab8330d4c716a73c9fcb489
> > >
> > > At a glance it looks like Debian Jessie is likely to be the determining
> > > vote with 0.12.5 as its newest version.
> > 
> > https://repology.org/metapackage/spice/versions
> > 
> > Debian Oldstable
> > oldstable/main spice 0.12.5
> > 
> > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases
> > 
> > ~June 6th 2020 (LTS)
> > 
> > But the current stable, Stretch, was released on June 17th 2017.
> > 
> > So we are stuck with spice server 0.12.5 until +2y, June 17th 2019 ?
> 
> Yep, but that means one more dev cycle - 4.0
> 
> We're free to drop Jessie once QEMU 4.1 opens for development at
> end of April / early May.

Ok, lets just put the patch on hold then.  I don't think it makes that
much sense to jump to 0.12.5 now and 0.12.6 next year.

cheers,
  Gerd