Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] CI: Stop building docs on centos8

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 at 00:31, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> CentOS 8 does not ship with a sphinx new enough for our purposes (It
> necessarily uses Python 3.6), so drop this from this build. We can
> resume building docs on CentOS 9 if we wish, but we also currently test
> and build docs on Fedora, Ubuntu, Alpine and Debian.

This confuses me. We work fine with Python 3.6 today.
Either:
 * CentOS 8 has fallen off the end of our "supported build platforms"
   list -- if so, we don't need to be CI'ing anything on it.
 * CentOS 8 is still a supported platform -- in this case building
   the docs is something we need to continue to support, and we
   can't drop Python 3.6 until all of our supported build
   platforms have a newer Python available.

thanks
-- PMM