Require Python 3.6 for Samba 4.13

This allows Samba to use formatted string literals, which are quite handy. REF: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.6.html#whatsnew36-pep498 Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andreas Schneider <[email protected]>
httpstorm · Mar 9, 2020 · 609c990 · 609c990
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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,17 @@ UPGRADING
 NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
 ====================
 
+Python 3.6 Required
+-------------------
+
+Samba's minimum runtime requirement for python was raised to Python
+3.5 with samba 4.12.  Samba 4.13 raises this minimum version to Python
+3.6 both to access new features and because this is the oldest version
+we test with in our CI infrastructure.
+
+(Build time support for the file server with Python 2.6 has not
+changed)
+
 
 REMOVED FEATURES
 ================

diff --git a/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_python.py b/buildtools/wafsamba/samba_python.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from waflib.Configure import conf
 
 @conf
-def SAMBA_CHECK_PYTHON(conf, version=(3,5,0)):
+def SAMBA_CHECK_PYTHON(conf, version=(3,6,0)):
 
     if conf.env.disable_python:
         version=(2,6,0)