[0/3] Improve CI testing of older systems

Message

brian m. carlson Oct. 31, 2024, 11:49 p.m. UTC

In many cases, we're not testing some of the older Linux distributions
that we support.  However, we _are_ testing some old Linux distributions
that we _don't_ support.  That means that it's presently difficult for
us to make sure our code works on all the systems we want it to and that
we're not accidentally requiring newer versions of dependencies than we
claim to support.

The first patch removes Ubuntu 16.04, which is out of regular LTS
support.  The second removes the clause in the CI job for that OS.  The
third adds several new CI jobs to make sure we're adequately supporting
older Debian and RHEL-compatible distros, and documents the dates at
which they lose support (so it's easy to know if we need to update
them).

brian m. carlson (3):
  gitlab-ci: switch from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04
  ci: remove clause for Ubuntu 16.04
  Add additional CI jobs to avoid accidental breakage

 .github/workflows/main.yml |  9 +++++++++
 .gitlab-ci.yml             |  2 +-
 ci/install-dependencies.sh | 19 ++++++++++---------
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Comments

Patrick Steinhardt Nov. 4, 2024, 11:36 a.m. UTC | #1

On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 11:49:31PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> In many cases, we're not testing some of the older Linux distributions
> that we support.  However, we _are_ testing some old Linux distributions
> that we _don't_ support.  That means that it's presently difficult for
> us to make sure our code works on all the systems we want it to and that
> we're not accidentally requiring newer versions of dependencies than we
> claim to support.
> 
> The first patch removes Ubuntu 16.04, which is out of regular LTS
> support.  The second removes the clause in the CI job for that OS.  The
> third adds several new CI jobs to make sure we're adequately supporting
> older Debian and RHEL-compatible distros, and documents the dates at
> which they lose support (so it's easy to know if we need to update
> them).

The GitLab CI-related changes all look good to me, thanks! The GitHub
ones do, too, but I feel less qualified to comment on them.

Patrick