[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ci: pin meson to 0.52.0

[David Marchand]

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:10 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 12:59:35PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:29 PM Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2020-01-08 at 12:02 +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> > > > meson 0.53.0 has a compatibility issue [1] with the python 3.5.2 that
> > > > comes
> > > > in Ubuntu 16.04.
> > > > Let's pin meson to 0.52.0 while the fix is being prepared in meson.
> > > >
> > > > 1:
> > > > https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/6427
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <
> > > > david.marchand at redhat.com
> > > > >
> > > > ---
> > > >  .ci/linux-setup.sh | 2 +-
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>
> >
> > There is a 0.52.1 version available, so I suppose we can blacklist
> > meson < 0.53 instead.
> > Thought?
> >
> > If noone objects, I will apply a fix by the end of the day.
> >
> Wondering if there is value in using 0.47.1, the minimum version we
> support, to catch potential issues with someone using features from newer
> versions? I suspect there are more people using the latest releases of
> meson than the baseline supported version?

Testing with a fixed version seems better in a CI, and since we
announce this minimum version, then yes, it makes sense.
I will post a v2.


-- 
David Marchand