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

Andreas Jaeger aj at suse.com
Fri Apr 20 14:26:16 UTC 2018


On 2018-04-20 16:05, Paul Belanger wrote:
> 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.

How do you want to change the set up tox jobs, especially python27,
sphinx-docs, and python35?

Andreas
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