[OE-core] RFC: dropping official support for Debian 8 / Opensuse 42.3

[akuster808]

On 7/17/19 1:37 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that both Debian 8 and OpenSuse 42.3 are end-of-life and no longer
> formally supported, we think it's time to drop them from the supported
> distribution list.  Initially this involves removing them from the
> SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS list in Poky, at some point during this cycle we
> may remove those distributions from the Yocto Project autobuilder to
> add more workers for other supported distributions.
>
> It is expected that the next release will probably work on those two
> distributions, there are no plans to do new and exciting things
> dropping these unsupported distributions enables -- like increasing
> the minimum Python version to 3.5 until after the 2.8 release in
> October.
>
> Please, if this impacts you, speak up now.

+1
>
> Ross