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

[Burton, Ross]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 at 07:04, Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> > 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).

I'm inclined to dropping 8 and just supporting 9 and 10.  We don't
*need* to exercise every distro.

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

42.3 dropped.  15.1 should be it's replacement, yes.  This is already
being exercised on the autobuilder.

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

Good point, and we also don't have Fedora 30 in the list.  Again, this
is already being exercised on the autobuilder.

> 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.

Centos 7 support is, I believe, already patchy - I think we mandate
the buildtools for that?  Any idea what the support plan for Centos 7
will be once 8 is released, whenever that is?

Ross