Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] t: exercise Git/JGit reftable compatibility

From: Patrick Steinhardt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 21:49:40 +0200

On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 02:35:46PM -0500, Justin Tobler wrote:
> On 24/05/03 08:57PM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 08:48:03PM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 01:42:32PM -0500, Justin Tobler wrote:
> > > > On 24/04/12 06:43AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
[snip]
> > Maybe we should do something like below patch. Basically, we start to
> > acknowledge the fact that Python 2 is end of life and always use Python
> > 3 on ubuntu:latest. We might go even further than that and only use
> > Python 2 on ubuntu:20.04 and slowly phase out support for it.
> > 
> > diff --git a/ci/lib.sh b/ci/lib.sh
> > index 473a2d0348..3967a5af85 100755
> > --- a/ci/lib.sh
> > +++ b/ci/lib.sh
> > @@ -325,11 +325,18 @@ ubuntu-*)
> >  		break
> >  	fi
> >  
> > -	PYTHON_PACKAGE=python2
> > -	if test "$jobname" = linux-gcc
> > -	then
> > +	case "$distro" in
> > +	ubuntu-latest)
> >  		PYTHON_PACKAGE=python3
> > -	fi
> > +		;;
> > +	*)
> > +		PYTHON_PACKAGE=python2
> > +		if test "$jobname" = linux-gcc
> > +		then
> > +			PYTHON_PACKAGE=python3
> > +		fi
> > +		;;
> > +	esac
> >  	MAKEFLAGS="$MAKEFLAGS PYTHON_PATH=/usr/bin/$PYTHON_PACKAGE"
> >  
> >  	export GIT_TEST_HTTPD=true
> 
> This seems reasonable to me :)

Please feel free to adopt and adapt this fix. I probably shouldn't be
reading mails at this time of the day in the first place :)

Patrick