[Libguestfs] [PATCH common] options: Require libguestfs >= 1.42.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 05:00:00PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 14:07:56 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Libguestfs itself is obviously now >= 1.42.  In virt-v2v we made a
> > similar change upstream to require libguestfs >= 1.42.  Therefore the
> > ifdefs are no longer required.
> > ---
> 
> Even if we accept this patch, there is the larger unsolved issue of the
> branch strategy for libguestfs-common: there will be for sure "stable"
> fixes, and bumping the common submodule in libguestfs and virt-v2v will
> pull in also new features, possibly requiring new APIs (like this patch
> shows) or internal API changes in the common parts.
> 
> How do we deal with that?

I guess we can add branches as needed to libguestfs-common?
(eg. stable-libguestfs-1.42, stable-v2v-1.42)
Is there a reason that wouldn't work?

Rich.

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