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

Paul Belanger pabelanger at redhat.com
Fri Apr 20 14:05:01 UTC 2018


On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 09:07:25AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 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?
> 
I wouldn't expect stable branches to be running bionic, unless I am missing
something obvious.

> 
> Andreas
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