Minimum recommended toolchain - document and test it #1874

pull hebasto wants to merge 2 commits into bitcoin-core:master from hebasto:260617-doc-toolchain changing 3 files +58 −8

hebasto commented at 3:51 PM on June 17, 2026: member
This PR:
1. Establishes clear boundaries for the project's recommended build and testing environments.
2. Adds a CI job that tests the project's minimum recommended build environment.
This is useful for reviewing changes like #1865 or #1869.

For the context:
- from #1871 (comment):
  
  ... Wheezy is just ancient. Do you think a Docker image that depends on a generic Debian oldoldstable image could do the job? (Does such an image exist?) This would at least save us from bumping the version regularly.

doc: Document the minimum recommended toolchain

Establish clear boundaries for the project's recommended build and
testing environments.

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ci: Add CI job to build on Debian "oldoldstable"

Debian "oldoldstable" is the minimum recommended build environment.

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