[libvirt] [PATCH 01/10] rbd: depend on diff_iterate2

[Peter Krempa]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 10:00:18 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 10:48:25AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:40:14 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 07:40:16AM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> > > > This function was added by
> > > > commit 6d5b969d4206208e91ca807b09aac75f2f428393
> > > >     librbd: add diff_iterate2 to API
> > > > git describe: v0.94-1009-g6d5b969d42 contains: v9.0.1~55^2~27
> > > > 
> > > > Effectively bump the required version to 9.0.1 now that we no
> > > > longer try to support Debian 8.
> > > > 
> > > > Ubuntu 16.04 has 10.2.11:
> > > > https://repology.org/project/ceph/versions
> > > 
> > > This version only arrived in RHEL-7.6.  We've not said whether our
> > > support policy applies to only the version latest update or RHEL
> > > or not.  To me though it feels too soon to mandate RHEL-7.6 only
> > > as people are generally pretty slow to update to latest releases.
> > 
> > Are people who are slow to update which is mostly to avoid breaking
> > production systems really going to run upstream libvirtd?
> 
> Our platform support policy isn't merely about what hosts people can
> run libvirt on, it is also about what developers contributing to libvirt
> can use. Corporate developers cannot be assumed to have freedom to choose
> their development platform - RHEL-7 may well be the only platform they
> can use.

I think we should add a configure time check that advices them to look
for a better job. Oh wait I'm 2 days late for such a thing probably.
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