Re: [libvirt] Dropping RHEL-6/CentOS-6 support

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 12:07:43PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote: > Dear list, > > I've noticed a failed build on CentOS-6 after some commits. Problem was > that old gcc is not wise enough and produces a false positive. I've > proposed a patch for that [1] but honestly, neither am I - like Peter - > very fond of this approach. We should not try to fix a good code because > of some spurious warnings. Moreover if they happen on a system that is > considered stable and thus nobody should run recent libvirt on it. > > In RHEL-6/CentOS-6 there's libvirt-0.10.2 which is 3.5 years old now. > > I'm starting this thread so that the decision and discussion is clear > and not buried under discussion to the patch. > > If we happen to stop caring we probably should stop our CentOS-6 build > in jenkins too [2]. IMHO it is well premature to stop caring about RHEL-6. We only just dropped support for RHEL-5, but RHEL-6 is very much still a widely used platform and will continue to be so for a good while yet.