Overall old Ubuntu 22.04 removals. We only want to support latest LTS…

… of Ubuntu

Signed-off-by: Christian Parpart <[email protected]>

.github/appimage/AppImageBuilder.yml

@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ AppDir:
     exec_args: $@
   apt:
     arch: amd64
+    allow_unauthenticated: true
     sources:
-      - sourceline: 'deb [arch=amd64] http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy main restricted universe multiverse'
-        key_url: 'http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x871920D1991BC93C'
+      - sourceline: 'deb [arch=amd64] http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ noble main restricted universe multiverse'
 
     include:
     - glibc-source:amd64
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ AppDir:
     - qt6-declarative-dev:amd64
     - qt6-multimedia-dev:amd64
     - qt6-qpa-plugins:amd64
-    - libyaml-cpp0.7:amd64
+    - libyaml-cpp0.8:amd64
     - libutempter-dev:amd64
     - libssh2-1:amd64
     - libx11-xcb1:amd64

.github/appimage/Dockerfile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM ubuntu:22.04
+FROM ubuntu:24.04
 
 RUN apt-get update
 RUN apt-get install -y sudo clang wget
@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ RUN cmake --build build --target install
 RUN sudo apt install -y binutils coreutils desktop-file-utils fakeroot fuse libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev patchelf python3-pip python3-setuptools squashfs-tools strace util-linux zsync
 RUN sudo wget https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage -O /usr/local/bin/appimagetool
 RUN sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/appimagetool
-RUN sudo sudo pip3 install appimage-builder
+RUN sudo sudo pip3 install appimage-builder --break-system-packages
 
 RUN appimage-builder --recipe $PWD/.github/appimage/AppImageBuilder.yml

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ jobs:
   # {{{ Linux AppImage (Using Ubuntu 24.04 as base).
   package_for_AppImage:
     name: "Packaging for AppImage"
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Set up QEMU

.github/workflows/changelog.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ on:
 jobs:
   Check-Changelog:
     name: Check Changelog Action
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: tarides/changelog-check-action@v2
         name: Check changelog

.github/workflows/codechecker-analysis.yml

@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ concurrency:
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
-  ubuntu_2004:
-    name: "Ubuntu Linux 22.04"
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+  ubuntu:
+    name: "Ubuntu Linux"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: "Check out repository"
         uses: actions/checkout@v3

metainfo.xml

@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
         <ul>
           <li>Port to C++20's `std::format()` (#1598)</li>
           <li>Enable support for Unicode version 16.0.0 (#1606)</li>
+          <li>Drop support for Ubuntu 23.10 and older. In order to have less burdain of maintencne, we only support the latest LTS of Ubuntu, which currently is 24.04 (#1607)</li>
         </ul>
       </description>
     </release>

scripts/install-deps.sh

@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ install_deps_ubuntu()
             fetch_and_unpack_Catch2
             ;;
         *)
-            packages="$packages libfmt-dev librange-v3-dev catch2"
+            packages="$packages librange-v3-dev catch2"
             ;;
     esac
 
@@ -322,7 +322,6 @@ install_deps_FreeBSD()
 
     [ x$PREPARE_ONLY_EMBEDS = xON ] && return
 
-    # NB: libfmt is available in pkg, but it's not version >= 9.0.0 (as of 2022-09-03).
     # NB: catch2 (as name "catch") is available in pkg, but it's not version >= 3.0.0.
     su root -c "pkg install $SYSDEP_ASSUME_YES \
         cmake \