Remove support for py38 and enable py312 testing

.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/bug_report.yml

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ body:
   attributes:
     label: Python Interpreter version
     description: The version(s) of Python used.
-    placeholder: "3.8"
+    placeholder: "3.9"
   validations:
     required: true
 - type: checkboxes

.github/workflows/jira_cloud_ci.yml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ jobs:
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
         # We only test a single version to prevent concurrent
         # running of tests influencing one another
-        python-version: ["3.8"]
+        python-version: ["3.9"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install --upgrade tox tox-gh-actions
 
       - name: Test with tox
-        run: tox -e py38 -- -m allow_on_cloud
+        run: tox -e py39 -- -m allow_on_cloud
         env:
           CI_JIRA_TYPE: CLOUD
           CI_JIRA_CLOUD_ADMIN: ${{ secrets.CLOUD_ADMIN }}

.github/workflows/jira_server_ci.yml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
         jira-version: [8.17.1]
 
     steps:

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ jobs:
       TOX_PARALLEL_NO_SPINNER: 1
 
     steps:
-    - name: Switch to using Python 3.8 by default
+    - name: Switch to using Python 3.9 by default
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
 
     - name: Install build dependencies
       run: python3 -m pip install --user tox

.github/workflows/tox.yml

@@ -32,8 +32,14 @@ jobs:
             lint
             docs
             pkg
-          # ^ arm64 runner is using py311 for matching python version used in AAP 2.5
-          platforms: linux,macos,linux-arm64:ubuntu-24.04-arm64-2core
+            py39:tox -e py39 --notest
+            py310:tox -e py310 --notest
+            py311:tox -e py311 --notest
+            py312:tox -e py312 --notest
+            py39-macos:tox -e py312 --notest
+            py312-macos:tox -e py312 --notest
+          # ^ macos is also used to validate arm64 building
+          platforms: linux,macos
           skip_explode: "1"
   build:
     name: ${{ matrix.name }}
@@ -45,6 +51,13 @@ jobs:
       matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.prepare.outputs.matrix) }}
     steps:
 
+      - name: Install package dependencies (ubuntu)
+        if: ${{ contains(matrix.os, 'ubuntu') }}
+        run: |
+          sudo apt remove -y docker-compose
+          sudo apt-get update -y
+          sudo apt-get --assume-yes --no-install-recommends install -y apt-transport-https curl libkrb5-dev
+
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0 # needed by setuptools-scm
@@ -138,8 +151,13 @@ jobs:
           name: logs.zip
           path: .
 
-      - name: Check for expected number of coverage reports
-        run: .github/check-coverage.sh
+      - name: Check for expected number of coverage.xml reports
+        run: |
+          JOBS_PRODUCING_COVERAGE=0
+          if [ "$(find . -name coverage.xml | wc -l | bc)" -ne "${JOBS_PRODUCING_COVERAGE}" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Number of coverage.xml files was not the expected one (${JOBS_PRODUCING_COVERAGE}): $(find . -name coverage.xml |xargs echo)"
+            exit 1
+          fi
 
       # Single uploads inside check job for codecov to allow use to retry
       # it when it fails without running tests again. Fails often enough!

bindep.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# gssapi pypi wheel build needs:
+libkrb5-dev [platform:dpkg]