[PATCH v2 0/4] Remove support for Django 1.6

[Johannes Berg]

On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 08:36 +0100, Matthias Runge wrote:

> If I got the context right here, the question is, when (and if) there
> will be a Django upgrade for epel7 to Django-1.8.x, right?

Yeah that would be the most obvious "question" here. I wasn't even sure
that it was going to be possible to do that, so the lesser question
would have been "is it even going to happen" :)

> Currently, an upgrade there is blocked by applications, e.g.
> reviewboard, which don't support Django-1.8.x yet.

Ok. Do you have any idea if there's any work going on to address that,
or so?

> My plan is still, to push an LTS Django version there asap. Until then,
> I'll make sure, the Django-1.6.x version in EPEL7 is still secure (i.e.
> backport security fixes).

Right. The thread is really about patchwork removing Django 1.6
compatibility, for various reasons (migrations being one, Django
upstream support being another, perhaps more)

> With respect to migrations, I guess, the only way to do it right now is
> to use Django-south, which is integrated e.g. in Django-1.8.
> 
> On a side note, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 7 comes with Django-1.8
> packages. The same goes for rdoproject.org. They are distributing
> Django-1.8 packages for their Kilo and Liberty release, and they should
> cleanly install on RHEL7/CentOS7 nodes with EPEL enabled. But, I would
> expect issues with Django packages installed from EPEL7 and with
> Django-1.8 version from those OpenStack related repositories.

Yeah, though I think the kernel.org admins won't be installing anything
from outside RHEL7/EPEL7.

> Does that answer your question?

It does, thanks.

johannes