Re: Avocado 88.1 vs Python 3.12

[Richard Henderson]

On 7/9/24 09:26, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 9/7/24 17:41, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I have reinstalled my development box to ubuntu 24 (because the Rust support is better 
> > than my previous install; ho hum).  I thought I had tested everything in a VM before 
> > committing, but I missed out on Avocado:
> >
> > >   AVOCADO Downloading avocado tests VM image for aarch64
> > > Failed to load plugin from module "avocado.plugins.list": ModuleNotFoundError("No 
> > > module named 'imp'") :
>
>
> > If I understand things correctly, the python "imp" package was deprecated, and has been 
> > removed before v3.12.  This is fixed in upstream avocado as of v93.  But we have a hard 
> > stop in pythondeps.toml at v92.
> >
> > Remind me what the blocker is to upgrading?
>
> IIRC we're waiting for v2 of:
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20231208190911.102879-1-crosa@redhat.com/

Yes indeed.  There are two minor conflicts in rebasing this branch, but otherwise it 
works.  Cleber, do you have time to pick this up again?


r~