[OpenStack-Infra] Stop supporting bindep-fallback.txt moving forward

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Fri Apr 20 07:07:25 UTC 2018


On 2018-04-20 01:15, Paul Belanger wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'd like to propose we hard freeze changes to bindep-fallback.txt[1] and push
> projects to start using a local bindep.txt file.
> 
> This would mean, moving forward with ubuntu-bionic, if a project was still
> depending on bindep-fallback.txt, their jobs may raise a syntax error.
> 
> In fact, today ubuntu-bionic does seem to pass properly with
> bindep-fallback.txt, but perhaps we prime it with a bad package on purpose to
> force the issue. As clarkb points out, the downside to this it does make it
> harder for projects to be flipped to ubuntu-bionic.  It is possible we could
> also prime gerrit patches for projects that are missing bindep.txt to help push
> this effort along.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> [1] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/project-config/tree/nodepool/elements/bindep-fallback.txt

This might break all stable branches as well. Pushing those changes in
is a huge effort ;( Is that worth it?


Andreas
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