Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for 4.2 1/3] glib: bump min required glib library version to 2.48

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 06:02:43PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 23/07/2019 17.48, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > Per supported platforms doc[1], the various min glib on relevant distros is:
> > 
> >   RHEL-8: 2.56.1
> >   RHEL-7: 2.50.3
> >   Debian (Buster): 2.58.3
> >   Debian (Stretch): 2.50.3
> >   OpenBSD (Ports): 2.58.3
> >   FreeBSD (Ports): 2.56.3
> >   OpenSUSE Leap 15: 2.54.3
> >   SLE12-SP2: 2.48.2
> >   Ubuntu (Xenial): 2.48.0
> >   macOS (Homebrew): 2.56.0
> > 
> > This suggests that a minimum glib of 2.48 is a reasonable target.
> > 
> > Compared to the previous version bump in
> > 
> >   commit e7b3af81597db1a6b55f2c15d030d703c6b2c6ac
> >   Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
> >   Date:   Fri May 4 15:34:46 2018 +0100
> > 
> >     glib: bump min required glib library version to 2.40
> > 
> > This will result in us dropping support for Debian Jessie and
> > Ubuntu 14.04.
> > 
> > As per the commit message 14.04 was already outside our list
> > of supported build platforms and an exception was only made
> > because one of the build hosts used during merge testing was
> > stuck on 14.04.
> > 
> > Debian Jessie is justified to drop because we only aim to
> > support at most 2 major versions of Debian at any time. This
> > means Buster and Stretch at this time.
> > 
> > The g_strv_contains compat code is dropped as this API is
> > present since 2.44
> > 
> > The g_assert_cmpmem compat code is dropped as this API is
> > present since 2.46
> > 
> > [1] https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Supported-build-platforms
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> 
> Sorry, my memory fails ... when did I review this patch?

Doh, sorry - cut & paste screwup. I'll drop this line.

Regards,
Daniel
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