On Thu, 2019-03-28 at 10:59 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
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* the libvirt-dbus, libvirt-ocaml and virt-manager projects do not support the platform at all because it ships outdated versions of some core components;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.
$ ./lcitool update libvirt-debian-8 libvirt ... TASK [Update installed packages] ********************************** fatal: [libvirt-debian-8]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to update apt cache: W:Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-backports/main/binary-amd64/Packag... 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.248.204 80]\n, E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead."} As mentioned above, we rely on backports for the JRE, so while we could simply disable the jessie-backport repository that would leave us with some packages that are installed on the system but can't be updated, a situation that I would not be particularly comfortable with. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization