Sunday, June 13, 2021

Re: [update] ansible-4.1.0

> On Jun 13, 2021, at 5:20 PM, Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>
> On 2021/06/13 14:20, Daniel Dickman wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 12:58 PM Pavel Korovin <p@tristero.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06/13, Johnathan C. Maudlin wrote:
>>>> Has it become vital to move off of Ansible 2.9.x? Currently in Linux
>>>> land, specifically when looking at Fedora/CentOS and Ubuntu, they are
>>>> all still providing Ansible 2.9.x and I would assume Fedora would be the
>>>> first to move off of 2.9.x if there was a pressing need to do so.
>>>>
>>>> In my humble opinion, I think it might be reasonable to continue with
>>>> the Ansible 2.9.x branch as users who rely on a newer version can do so
>>>> using virtualenv and other such mechanisms.
>>>
>>> Johnathan,
>>> The main reason for me to switch is the fact that ansible-2.9 will not
>>> receive bugfixes except the security ones. Earlier or later ansible
>>> community will stop supporting v2.9 and we'll have to switch anyway.
>>> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html#ansible-core-release-cycle
>>>
>>
>> ansible 2.9 is a blocker for updating py-sphinx to the 4.x series.
>>
>
> Probably not the only thing blocking updating sphinx, with the "Support
> for evaluating Python 2 syntax is deprecated and will be removed in
> Sphinx 4.0" warnings seen in the current version..
>

To clarify, ansible is the only thing left in my local tree.

ghc was recently updated so is no longer an issue and I have trivial diffs for the other 3 affected ports.

Note that the idea would be to go to Sphinx 4.0.1 as 4.0.2 will require plist updates in some of the consumers.

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