Re: [XEN PATCH 1/4] automation: Remove clang-8 from Debian unstable container

From: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [XEN PATCH 1/4] automation: Remove clang-8 from Debian unstable container
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:28:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+0ILtUb+yrVWKxf@l14> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6fa7fa56-d30a-e66e-b46f-5e7daffeb487@citrix.com>

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 12:26:40PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 15/02/2023 12:02 pm, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > First, apt complain that it isn't the right way to add keys anymore,
> > but hopefully that's just a warning.
> >
> > Second, we can't install clang-8:
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  clang-8 : Depends: libstdc++-8-dev but it is not installable
> >            Depends: libgcc-8-dev but it is not installable
> >            Depends: libobjc-8-dev but it is not installable
> >            Recommends: llvm-8-dev but it is not going to be installed
> >            Recommends: libomp-8-dev but it is not going to be installed
> >  libllvm8 : Depends: libffi7 (>= 3.3~20180313) but it is not installable
> > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> >
> > clang on Debian unstable is now version 14.0.6.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
> 
> Yeah that's because clang 8 is way obsolete, and http://apt.llvm.org
> only supports Clang 15 and later now.
> 
> In hindsight, it was a mistake to take unstable-llvm-8.list in the first
> place.
> 
> Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>

I just realize that this change is going to break gitlab testing in the
staging-4* branches. So I guess this mean that we will have to backport
this patch, or at least the gitlab-ci part.

-- 
Anthony PERARD