[libvirt] [PATCH] news.rng: work around a bug in old libxml2

[Peter Krempa]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 10:52:39 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 09:12:11AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 09:05:58 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> > > Similar to commit c3c2cc6, use a literal newsline instead of \n
> > > inside the brackets.
> > > ---
> > > Pushed as a build fix.
> > 
> > This is ugly. How about dropping support for platforms which can't use
> > new enough libraries rather than band-aiding the code?
> > 
> > Nobody in their right mind would use upstream software with very old
> > distros.
> 
> We still target RHEL6 as a platform for libvirt to build on and as such
> people reasonably expect tests to pass when built there. It is mildly
> ugly but not a serious maint burden to us long term.

Yes I know we still target it. That's why I said we should drop it. I
don't expect it to happen, but the constant breakages due to symbol
shadowing (since gcc is too old) or this bother me. And I actually don't
see much use in keeping it. Using upstream libvirt on rhel6 would be
insane for a production environment. Using rhel6 for a development
environment is insane by itself.
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