Re: [poky] [PATCH] poky: remove Ubu-20.04 from SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS due to python

On Fri, 2025-03-21 at 15:26 -0400, Paul Gortmaker via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> From: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
> 
> Bitbake commit 0d2e682d00df ("bitbake: lib/bb: Bump minimum python
> version requirement to 3.9" -- local commit 67566c7410e1) means that
> Ubuntu 20.04 is no longer supported out-of-the-box as detailed further
> in the respective commit log.
> 
> While it is true that it can still be used with buildtools, that can
> also be said for nearly every other unsupported distro out there,
> including Ubuntu 18.04 that we listed as unsupported some years ago.
> Hence continuing to list it as supported with the new python requirement
> in place does not make sense.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
> ---
>  meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
> index eeaacd7b88fb..bcbd2c17fbaa 100644
> --- a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
> +++ b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
> @@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_rpm"
>  SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS ?= " \
>              poky-5.0 \n \
>              poky-5.1 \n \
> -            ubuntu-20.04 \n \
>              ubuntu-22.04 \n \
>              ubuntu-24.04 \n \
>              ubuntu-24.10 \n \

Thanks for the patch.

Whilst we're close to doing it, we need to hold this until we actually
drop the 20.04 workers from the autobuilder otherwise we'll start
seeing various warnings in builds.

Cheers,

Richard