ci: add Ubuntu 16.04 job to GitLab CI

In the preceding commits we had to convert the linux32 job to be based
on Ubuntu 20.04 instead of Ubuntu 16.04 due to a limitation in GitHub
Workflows. This was the only job left that still tested against this old
but supported Ubuntu version, and we have no other jobs that test with a
comparatively old Linux distribution.

Add a new job to GitLab CI that tests with Ubuntu 16.04 to cover the
resulting test gap. GitLab doesn't modify Docker images in the same way
GitHub does and thus doesn't fall prey to the same issue. There are two
compatibility issues uncovered by this:

  - Ubuntu 16.04 does not support HTTP/2 in Apache. We thus cannot set
    `GIT_TEST_HTTPD=true`, which would otherwise cause us to fail when
    Apache fails to start.

  - Ubuntu 16.04 cannot use recent JGit versions as they depend on a
    more recent Java runtime than we have available. We thus disable
    installing any kind of optional dependencies that do not come from
    the package manager.

These two restrictions are fine though, as we only really care about
whether Git compiles and runs on such old distributions in the first
place.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

3 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 37b991e080..c4c45dad2f 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ test:linux:
       fi
   parallel:
     matrix:
+      - jobname: linux-old
+        image: ubuntu:16.04
+        CC: gcc
       - jobname: linux-sha256
         image: ubuntu:latest
         CC: clang
diff --git a/ci/install-dependencies.sh b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
index d04f2a490b..e2c6ef0f66 100755
--- a/ci/install-dependencies.sh
+++ b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ ubuntu-*|ubuntu32-*)
 		${CC_PACKAGE:-${CC:-gcc}} $PYTHON_PACKAGE
 
 	case "$distro" in
+	ubuntu-16.04)
+		# Does not support JGit, but we also don't really care about
+		# the others. We rather care whether Git still compiles and
+		# runs fine overall.
+		;;
 	ubuntu-*)
 		mkdir --parents "$CUSTOM_PATH"
 
diff --git a/ci/lib.sh b/ci/lib.sh
index 51f8f59a29..74b430be23 100755
--- a/ci/lib.sh
+++ b/ci/lib.sh
@@ -336,7 +336,14 @@ ubuntu-*)
 	fi
 	MAKEFLAGS="$MAKEFLAGS PYTHON_PATH=/usr/bin/$PYTHON_PACKAGE"
 
-	export GIT_TEST_HTTPD=true
+	case "$distro" in
+	ubuntu-16.04)
+		# Apache is too old for HTTP/2.
+		;;
+	*)
+		export GIT_TEST_HTTPD=true
+		;;
+	esac
 
 	# The Linux build installs the defined dependency versions below.
 	# The OS X build installs much more recent versions, whichever