[OE-core] [Openembedded-architecture] buildtools-extended-tarball wrapping builds

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 11:41:13AM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-03-09 at 12:52 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 04:17:28PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > > ...
> > > This does mean we could drop gcc 4.8/4.9 support if we wanted to
> > > and
> > > rely on the tarball support for centos7/debian8.
> > > ...
> > 
> > Debian 8
> > - will have LTS support ending at the end of June, and
> > - ships Python 3.4, which is no longer supported by bitbake.
> > 
> > 3 months ago Yocto master stopped working on Debian 8,
> > and as expected noone complained.
> 
> We still have one debian8 autobuilder worker:
> 
> https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/workers/9
> 
> and with buildtools tarball it works 'fine'.

Ah right, buildtools tarball ships python3.
So yes, this invalidates my second point.

> Cheers,
> 
> Richard

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Adrian