Development Environment for different versions?

fallbackerik
Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:24:09 +0000
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I assume there might be quite a few cases where a developer would want to test something against a version that works, and then against a newer version where it fails.

To try that, I got this advice in a comment:

1. Get git repo

2. source ./hacking/env-setup

3. git checkout <version>

4. test

But I can’t find anything in the documentation about it.

Also, after setting up a fresh Debian Trixie (13) environment it doesn’t work. I assume it worked in my previous Bookworm (12) setup was because I had older versions of the undocumented requirements installed through system packages, because at some time in the past I was running ansible from system packages.

How would you recommend a fresh install to approach these development requirements?

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