Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH common] options: Require libguestfs >= 1.42.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 05:00:00PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 14:07:56 CET Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Libguestfs itself is obviously now >= 1.42. In virt-v2v we made a > > similar change upstream to require libguestfs >= 1.42. Therefore the > > ifdefs are no longer required. > > --- > > Even if we accept this patch, there is the larger unsolved issue of the > branch strategy for libguestfs-common: there will be for sure "stable" > fixes, and bumping the common submodule in libguestfs and virt-v2v will > pull in also new features, possibly requiring new APIs (like this patch > shows) or internal API changes in the common parts. > > How do we deal with that? I guess we can add branches as needed to libguestfs-common? (eg. stable-libguestfs-1.42, stable-v2v-1.42)