Re: Python 3.5 EOL; when can require 3.6?

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 17:30 +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
> > Sorry, I forgot to check Debian. If I got that right, Debian 9 still
> > uses Python 3.5 by default. So I guess that means we can not deprecate
> > Python 3.5 yet?
> 
> Discussed before:
> 
>     Subject: Re: [PATCH] qapi: Fix code generation with Python 3.5
>     Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 07:54:18 +0100
>     Message-ID: <87lfq5s19h.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>
>     https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-01/msg03855.html
> 
> Short version: Debian != Debian LTS.  We support Debian until EOL, not
> LTS.  Debian 9 reached EOL in July.

FWIW, this is the same policy the libvirt project follows, and we
have formalized it at

  https://libvirt.org/platforms.html

with Debian LTS being called out explicitly as not supported.

It would be *fantastic* if we could keep the platform support policy
used by QEMU and libvirt as aligned as reasonably possible.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization