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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 01:56:19PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> 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?

I'm talking about upstream too. Libvirt is *not* about only supporting the
latest cutting edge distros. We aim to support a broad range of distros
that are currently widely in use. RHEL-6 most certainly falls under that
umbrella, and upstream libvirt must *not* drop it as a targetted platform.

Regards,
Daniel
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