[libvirt] [PATCH] news: document new libxml version requirement

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 04:19:01PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 13:24 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > +      <change>
> > +        <summary>
> > +          libxml: min required libxml is now 2.9.1
> > +        </summary>
> > +        <description>
> > +          Support for building with libxml versions older than 2.9.1
> > +          has been dropped.
> > +        </description>
> > +      </change>
> 
> I don't think we need to document this in the release notes: for
> starters, configure will already complain loudly if libxml on the
> host is too old, same as it does for any other dependency, and
> additionally the version bump is fully in line with our established
> platform support policy.

I don't agree. This is something I expect to be prominent in any
application's release notes or news. There's no downside to giving
users this information upfront.

Regards,
Daniel
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