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

On 09.02.2016 13:52, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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. Sure, but I'm not talking about downstream support rather than upstream one. Or are you saying that nor upstream should drop RHEL-6?