Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ci: pin meson to 0.52.0

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 08/01/2020 14:22, David Marchand wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:10 PM Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 12:59:35PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:29 PM Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 12:02 +0100, David Marchand wrote:
>>>>> meson 0.53.0 has a compatibility issue [1] with the python 3.5.2 that
>>>>> comes
>>>>> in Ubuntu 16.04.
>>>>> Let's pin meson to 0.52.0 while the fix is being prepared in meson.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1:
>>>>> https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/6427
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <
>>>>> david.marchand@redhat.com
>>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  .ci/linux-setup.sh | 2 +-
>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
>>>
>>> There is a 0.52.1 version available, so I suppose we can blacklist
>>> meson < 0.53 instead.
>>> Thought?
>>>
>>> If noone objects, I will apply a fix by the end of the day.
>>>
>> Wondering if there is value in using 0.47.1, the minimum version we
>> support, to catch potential issues with someone using features from newer
>> versions? I suspect there are more people using the latest releases of
>> meson than the baseline supported version?
> 
> Testing with a fixed version seems better in a CI, and since we
> announce this minimum version, then yes, it makes sense.
> I will post a v2.

You can add a 'cc: stable' tag (in this case no fixes needed) as it is
the same issue for the stable branches - though I will take it straight
away.

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