[distros] Dropped support for Debian 9 and Ubuntu 16 #169

Closes #169

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -101,23 +101,23 @@ terraform-apply:
   dependencies:
     - terraform-plan
 
-Ubuntu1604:
-  variables:
-    distro: 'ubuntu:16.04'
-    playbook: test.yml
-  <<: *testing_script
+# Ubuntu1604:
+#   variables:
+#     distro: 'ubuntu:16.04'
+#     playbook: test.yml
+#   <<: *testing_script
 
 Ubuntu1804:
   variables:
     distro: 'ubuntu:18.04'
     playbook: test.yml
   <<: *testing_script
 
-Debian9:
-  variables:
-    distro: debian:9
-    playbook: test.yml
-  <<: *testing_script
+# Debian9:
+#   variables:
+#     distro: debian:9
+#     playbook: test.yml
+#   <<: *testing_script
 
 Debian10:
   variables:

.travis.yml

@@ -11,27 +11,26 @@ env:
   matrix:
   - distro: 'ubuntu:18.04'
     playbook: test.yml
-  - distro: debian:9
-    playbook: test.yml
   - distro: debian:10
     playbook: test.yml
   - distro: 'ubuntu:18.04'
     playbook: test_networktopology.yml
   # we don't have the resources now to maintain these distros
+  # - distro: debian:9
+  #   playbook: test.yml
   # - distro: fedora:27
   #   playbook: test.yml
   # - distro: fedora:28
   #   playbook: test.yml
   # - distro: centos:7
   #   playbook: test.yml
-
-matrix:
-  include:
-    - dist: trusty
-      python: "3.5"
-      env:
-        - distro: 'ubuntu:16.04'
-          playbook: test.yml
+# matrix:
+#   include:
+#     - dist: trusty
+#       python: "3.5"
+#       env:
+#         - distro: 'ubuntu:16.04'
+#           playbook: test.yml
 
 script:
   # Configure test script so we can run extra tests after playbook is run.

README.md

@@ -145,7 +145,6 @@ Substitute `openwisp2.mydomain.com` with your **production server**'s hostname -
 `openwisp2.mydomain.com` WITH AN IP ADDRESS**, otherwise email sending through postfix will break,
 causing 500 internal server errors on some operations.
 
-
 Create playbook file
 --------------------
 
@@ -273,9 +272,7 @@ Pull docker image with this command:
 Substitute `<distro>` with one of these variants:
 
 * `ubuntu:18.04`
-* `ubuntu:16.04`
 * `debian:10`
-* `debian:9`
 
 **Step 4**: Run docker container
 
@@ -322,7 +319,7 @@ customisations of *OpenWISP*.
 ### Installing Debian 9 on VirtualBox
 
 Install [VirtualBox](https://virtualbox.org) and create a new Virtual Machine running
-Debian 9. A step-by-step guide is available
+Debian 10. A step-by-step guide is available
 [here](http://www.brianlinkletter.com/installing-debian-linux-in-a-virtualbox-virtual-machine/),
 however we need to change a few things to get ansible working.
 

handlers/main.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 - name: reload systemd
   systemd: daemon_reload=yes
-  when: ansible_distribution_release in ['xenial', 'bionic'] and ansible_service_mgr == 'systemd'
+  when: ansible_distribution_release in ['bionic'] and ansible_service_mgr == 'systemd'
 
 - name: reload supervisor
   command: supervisorctl reload

meta/main.yml

@@ -16,11 +16,15 @@ galaxy_info:
   platforms:
   - name: Debian
     versions:
-    - stretch
+    # (send patch if you want this to be supported!)
+    # https://github.com/openwisp/ansible-openwisp2/issues/169#issuecomment-592983139
+    # - stretch
     - buster
   - name: Ubuntu
     versions:
-    - xenial
+    # (send patch if you want this to be supported!)
+    # https://github.com/openwisp/ansible-openwisp2/issues/169#issuecomment-592983139
+    # - xenial
     - bionic
   # we don't have the resources now to maintain these distros
   # - name: Fedora

tasks/apt.yml

@@ -103,14 +103,6 @@
   register: result
   until: result is success
 
-- name: Install python3-pyparsing
-  when: ansible_distribution == "Debian" and ansible_distribution_version == "9.0"
-  apt: name=python3-pyparsing
-  retries: 5
-  delay: 10
-  register: result
-  until: result is success
-
 - name: Install python wheel (optional, allowed to fail)
   ignore_errors: yes
   apt:

tasks/variables-spatialite.yml

@@ -6,12 +6,3 @@
     and ansible_distribution_version is version_compare('18.04', 'ge'))
     or (ansible_distribution == 'Debian' and
     ansible_distribution_version is version_compare('10', 'ge'))
-
-- name: Set spatialite_path (Ubuntu >= 16.04 or Debian >= 9)
-  set_fact:
-    openwisp2_spatialite_path: "mod_spatialite"
-  when: >
-    (ansible_distribution == 'Ubuntu'
-    and ansible_distribution_version is version_compare('16.04', 'ge'))
-    or (ansible_distribution == 'Debian'
-    and ansible_distribution_version is version_compare('9', 'ge'))

tests/runtests.sh

@@ -28,18 +28,10 @@ if [ $distro = "centos:7" ]; then
 elif [ $distro = "ubuntu:18.04" ]; then
   init="/lib/systemd/systemd"
   opts="--privileged --volume=/sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro"
-# Ubuntu 16.04
-elif [ $distro = "ubuntu:16.04" ]; then
-  init="/lib/systemd/systemd"
-  opts="--privileged --volume=/sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro"
 # Debian 10
 elif [ $distro = "debian:10" ]; then
   init="/lib/systemd/systemd"
   opts="--privileged --volume=/sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro"
-# Debian 9
-elif [ $distro = "debian:9" ]; then
-  init="/lib/systemd/systemd"
-  opts="--privileged --volume=/sys/fs/cgroup:/sys/fs/cgroup:ro"
 fi
 
 # Run the container using the supplied OS