Re: [OE-core] [bitbake-devel] End of whinlatter stable support

Böszörményi Zoltán <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Apr 2026 15:53:51 +0200
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2026. 04. 03. 11:14 keltezéssel, Martin Jansa via lists.openembedded.org írta:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 10:46 AM Yoann Congal via
> lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> As you may have noticed, the end-of-life date of whinlatter (2.16 for
>> bitbake) is near.
>> The last release of whinlatter will be the 5.3.4 and will be built in
>> the week of the 20th of april 2026 for a release the week of the 6th of may.
>>
>> If you have patches that you want to see merged in this last version,
>> please send them before the 10th (next week) so we get enough time for
>> review and testing.
> I would like to see my glibc-2.43 compatibility changes I've sent last
> week merged.
>
> I've tested it on 26.04 in docker, if it doesn't show any issue on
> other hosts used by AB, then what's the harm of merging them to
> whinlatter and scarthgap?

That series is indeed needed for whinlatter in my testing on
Fedora 44 (post-beta, practically final), plus the other series
I just sent that fixes binutils-native and gcc-cross.

Unfurtunately, pseudo would need another fix to work on
Fedora 44 as is, see my mail at
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/234730

For now, I can't build neither whinlatter, nor current master
on Fedora 44 due to the pseudo issue.

> Even after whinlatter gets EOL someone might use latest ubuntu release
> on host and then try to compare his wrynose build (where 26.04 works
> fine) with whinlatter build (which fails immediately without these
> changes). I often use EOL OE releases when trying to "bisect" what
> changed in upstream layers e.g. between scarthgap and wrynose.
>
> Cheers,
>
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