[rfc] upgrade pqm chroot to lucid

[John Arbash Meinel]

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On 11/29/2010 8:22 PM, Martin Pool wrote:
> I'm going to ask our sysadmins to upgrade bzr's pqm chroot to run
> Ubuntu Lucid (from Hardy).  Lucid 10.04 is the most recent
> long-term-support release.
> 
> The immediate motivation for this is so that we can get python-sphinx
> running there and checking that the documentation builds.
> 
> More generally, if we add new optional dependencies, we may want tests
> to run against them in pqm and this will be more easily done on more
> recent releases.
> 
> The main drawback of this is that pqm will no longer run python2.4.
> 
> There's no single platform where we can test every single python
> interpreter and combination of libraries we want to support.  I think
> we should run pqm on the platform that's easiest to maintain, and
> that's closest to our typical/normal case, and Lucid is ahead on both
> counts.  Then we can use Babune to guard against regressions on less
> central platforms.
> 
> If anyone thinks this is unbearably bad, say so.
> 

I'm hoping you meant unbearably sad :).

According to this, RHEL people finally have an answer for "something
that isn't python2.4":
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2010/new-standard.html

If I read that correctly, RHEL 6 has finally been released as "General
Availability". Which means that there is a non-beta RHEL that has better
than python2.4, which was the last blocker for *me*.

I'm not sure about the 2.3 series, but I would be perfectly fine if
bzr2.4+ was only restricted to python2.5/(2.6?) compatibility, and we
stopped worrying about python2.4.

John
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