On 2019-09-27, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > On 9/27/19 6:36 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >>> I'm currently kicking test.py to use Python 3 instead of Python 2.7 and >>> seeing places where it would (seemingly) be nice to be able to say that >>> we have Python 3.6 as our minimum version. To do this however we'll >>> have to tell people using older LTS distributions that they need to >>> figure out the best way for them to install a newer Python is, if they >>> want to run tests at least. ... >>> So, does anyone object to saying that for everything that uses Python to >>> work, Python 3.6 or newer is needed, and for more common tools we'll >>> make best-effort to support older? >> >> That makes sense to me, the el8 distros (RHEL, CentOS etc) have 3.6 >> and el7 has 3.6 available by means, Fedora is at least 3.6 everywhere >> for current releases so I don't think we should have any issues. > > Debian Stretch has Python 3.4.2. > End of life in 2020, end of long term support in 2022 > > Debian Buster has Python 3.7.3 > End of life in 2022. > > I would not expect expect Debian Stretch moving to current U-Boot. So > requiring Python 3.6 to build current U-Boot seems ok for Debian.
Python 3.6+ seems good to me, yes. Not planning on backporting anything new to older Debian releases. Thanks for working on the update to python3! live well, vagrant
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