Since today, we are encountering the following issue in Travis runs on our Python projects (using Ubuntu 16.04 on Linux): 2.6 is not installed; attempting download Downloading archive: https://storage.googleapis.com/travis-ci-language-archives/python/binaries/ubuntu/16.04/x86_64/python-2.6.tar.bz2 …

If you need 2.6 support, you need to stick with Trusty.

Ok. But, just out of curiosity, Python 2.6 still worked with Ubuntu 16.04 a couple of weeks ago: https://travis-ci.org/pywbem/pywbem/jobs/540453383 So what has changed?

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Ah. I did not notice that. That explains it. We’ll pin the distro version to trusty then, for the Python 2.6 tests. Thanks much for the help!

Issue with Python 2.6 on Linux

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native-api June 25, 2019, 5:45am 4

The default dist changed recently.

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