Hello everyone,

Summary:

We would like to drop the support for stretch in the (near) future.

Details:

Currently lava-server and lava-dispatcher are supported on both debian stretch and debian buster.

Since LAVA 2019.11, the lava-server and lava-dispatcher docker images are based on debian buster and not stretch.

Unittest are still running on stretch, buster and bullseye but integration tests (lavafed and meta-lava mainly) are using the docker container so they run only on buster.

Dropping the support for stretch will:

* simplify testing

* allow to use more recent version of python and django

* remove some issues with old dependencies in stretch

But before dropping the support we need to ensure that users/admins had some time to migrate to buster or to docker-based installations.

In an ideal world, I would drop the support for stretch on the 1st of January 2020. But please answer to this mail so we can device of the right date all together.

Thanks

Rémi Duraffort

LAVA Architect

Linaro