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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 09:37:31PM +0100, 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.

Debian 8 is still LTS-supported for a year, unless there is urgency to 
drop support for it the right time for dropping would be after 2.8
(2.9 release and Debian 8 LTS EOL will both be in Q2 2020).

Should OpenSuse be dropped, or just the version upgraded to 15.1?

Fedora 28 is also unsupported (but will be the basis of CentOS 8).

> 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.

CentOS 7 is based on Fedora 19 from 2013.

This is the oldest currently supported distribution, and when to remove 
support for it (replacing it with the not yet existing CentOS 8) should
IMHO be part of this discussion.

>...
> Ross

cu
Adrian

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