Merge branch 'bc/ancient-ci' into jch

Drop support for ancient environments in various CI jobs.

* bc/ancient-ci:
  Add additional CI jobs to avoid accidental breakage
  ci: remove clause for Ubuntu 16.04
  gitlab-ci: switch from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -342,12 +342,21 @@ jobs:
         - jobname: linux-musl
           image: alpine
           distro: alpine-latest
+        # Supported until 2025-04-02.
         - jobname: linux32
           image: i386/ubuntu:focal
           distro: ubuntu32-20.04
         - jobname: pedantic
           image: fedora
           distro: fedora-latest
+        # A RHEL 8 compatible distro.  Supported until 2029-05-31.
+        - jobname: almalinux-8
+          image: almalinux:8
+          distro: almalinux-8
+        # Supported until 2026-08-31.
+        - jobname: debian-11
+          image: debian:11
+          distro: debian-11
     env:
       jobname: ${{matrix.vector.jobname}}
       distro: ${{matrix.vector.distro}}

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ test:linux:
   parallel:
     matrix:
       - jobname: linux-old
-        image: ubuntu:16.04
+        image: ubuntu:20.04
         CC: gcc
       - jobname: linux-sha256
         image: ubuntu:latest

ci/install-dependencies.sh

@@ -29,37 +29,38 @@ alpine-*)
 		apache2 apache2-http2 apache2-proxy apache2-ssl apache2-webdav apr-util-dbd_sqlite3 \
 		bash cvs gnupg perl-cgi perl-dbd-sqlite perl-io-tty >/dev/null
 	;;
-fedora-*)
+fedora-*|almalinux-*)
 	dnf -yq update >/dev/null &&
 	dnf -yq install make gcc findutils diffutils perl python3 gettext zlib-devel expat-devel openssl-devel curl-devel pcre2-devel >/dev/null
 	;;
-ubuntu-*|ubuntu32-*)
+ubuntu-*|ubuntu32-*|debian-*)
 	# Required so that apt doesn't wait for user input on certain packages.
 	export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
 
 	case "$distro" in
 	ubuntu-*)
 		SVN='libsvn-perl subversion'
+		LANGUAGES='language-pack-is'
 		;;
-	*)
+	ubuntu32-*)
 		SVN=
+		LANGUAGES='language-pack-is'
+		;;
+	*)
+		SVN='libsvn-perl subversion'
+		LANGUAGES='locales-all'
 		;;
 	esac
 
 	sudo apt-get -q update
 	sudo apt-get -q -y install \
-		language-pack-is apache2 cvs cvsps git gnupg $SVN \
+		$LANGUAGES apache2 cvs cvsps git gnupg $SVN \
 		make libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev wget sudo default-jre \
 		tcl tk gettext zlib1g-dev perl-modules liberror-perl libauthen-sasl-perl \
 		libemail-valid-perl libio-pty-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libdbd-sqlite3-perl libcgi-pm-perl \
 		${CC_PACKAGE:-${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"