Re: [PATCH 0/2] ci: Update to Fedora 39

On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 11:41:17 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 10:48:58AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 10:35:53 +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > > > I've approved and merged > > > > > > https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-perl/-/merge_requests/109 > > > > > > and posted > > > > > > https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-python/-/merge_requests/130 > > > > > > which will need to be approved. > > > > > > This should fix the following integration test failure: > > > > > > https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/jobs/5880074910 > > > > Grrr, this broke because debian-10 was dropped from lcitool and > > libvirt-python doesn't build trivially neither in debian-11 nor in > > debian-12. > > > > I might check it later, but honestly got demotivated ... > > Yes, it is very frustrating when updating CI with lcitool when youj > want to update the version of one particlar distro, and lcitool forces > you to also replace a different distro, and the latter cause breakage > for some reason. This has hit me time and time and time again. > > IMHO it is time to change the policy for lcitool, such that we do > NOT remove old distro versions for *at least* 1 year. > > This will give us flexibility to update individual distros without > having to do every distro in lockstep. It will let us debug problems > with certain new distros, without blocking updates of the rest of the > world. I'd suggest to flag the older distros which would be deleted with a flag which will produce a warning, when regenerating the CI stuff. It might be nice to notify that the distro is out of our support policy but without forcing update.