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

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2019-07-18 at 12:31 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > 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?

There is some kind of official feed to add python 3.6 to it which we
use.

Cheers,

Richard