Re: cross-platform backup tool First beta v2.1.2b1 release towards v2.2.0

On Wed, 2022-09-07 at 20:14 +0200, Eric Lavarde wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 07/09/2022 18:37, Robert Nichols wrote:
> > On 9/7/22 11:11 AM, EricZolf wrote:
> > > Hello everybody,
> > > 
> > > This is a beta release so that many people can test before this 
> > > becomes the next stable release. All changes are documented in
> > > the 
> > > changelog 
> > > <https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-
> > > backup/blob/v2.1.2b1/CHANGELOG.adoc#new-in-v2-1-2b1>. Check
> > > especially the changes (marked with /CHG/) which might impact
> > > your workflow. Since the last alpha:
> > > 
> > >    * support for Python 3.6 has been dropped,
> > 
> > Dropping Python 3.6 means that it will no longer work in RHEL 8.
> > That's very bad news.
> 
> Few answers to this:
> 
...
> 2. It doesn't mean that it doesn't work and I'm happy to make it
> work, 
> but by policy I don't want to support "officially" a version of
> Python 
> which isn't supported anymore (Python 3.6 _in RHEL 8_ is supported).

Yes, which means as the packager in EPEL I'm unlikely to port it to
EPEL7 or EPEL8, but will push it to EPEL9.

Regards
Frank