Re: [libvirt] Time to drop support for Debian 8 (Jessie)?

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 02:36:37PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > We currently support Debian 8 (oldstable) along with Debian 9 > (stable), but not without some compromises: > > * the libvirt-dbus, libvirt-ocaml and virt-manager projects do not > support the platform at all because it ships outdated versions of > some core components; > > * on the CI side of things, we are forced to drag in the JRE from > backports in order to be able to run the Jenkins agent. > > All things considered, the situation has been fairly manageable up > until now, but a couple of recent developments got me thinking that > perhaps it's time to let Jessie go: > > * the distribution has been moved from the regular Debian > infrastructure to archive.debian.org[1], a change which has > resulted in the daily update run failing and would require > investing time to adapt to; I'm a little confused why we saw any failures. The email link says that the LTS architectures were not moving to archive.debian.org x86_64 is an LTS arch so wouldn't have moved unless I'm misreading the mail.