Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] tests: run python tests under the build/tests/venv environment

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 5/13/22 18:07, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > e.g. what if I want to require mypy >= 0.900 for testing, but you have a
> > system package that requires mypy < 0.700?
> I would expect us to not require packages that are not present in
> the distros implied by
>
>    https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/about/build-platforms.html
>
> if that was absolutely a must have, then gracefully skip tests
> if the system version wasn't new enough. The user could always
> pass --python-env=pip if they want to force new enough

Consider that e.g. RHEL RPMs do not do mypy or pylint in %check, because 
the version of the linters in RHEL is usually older than what the 
upstream packages expect.

I don't think it's a good idea for QEMU to support what Red Hat 
packagers decided was a bad idea to support.

Paolo