[pkg-go] Bug#768073: ITP: lxd - The Linux Container Daemon - LXC team take over ITP?

Michael Hudson-Doyle michael.hudson at canonical.com
Sun Sep 25 22:40:06 UTC 2016


On 24 September 2016 at 05:25, Anthony Fok <foka at debian.org> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> (with added Cc to the Debian Go Team as well as
>
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:52:15 +0100 Jonathan Dowland <jmtd at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think that an ITP that has been inactive this long could be taken over
> by
> > another interested party without it being a hijack, all things
> considered.
> > (I think some QA script might move it to RFP soon anyway).
> >
> > Adnan, how's it going?
> >
> > There's a pkg-lxc team already. Since this package is/will be very
> inter-related to
> > LXC, perhaps it should be developed in that team? Team CCed. Are they
> interested?
> > Are you in pkg-lxc already?
> >
> > What's the state of the Ubuntu package? Could that make a good starting
> point? How
> > much hacking before that would be suitable for an experimental upload at
> least?
>
> I took a quick look at the package source obtained via:
>
>     dget -u http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lxd/lxd_2.
> 2-0ubuntu1.dsc
>
> This Ubuntu package is being maintained as an official Ubuntu package
> by Canonical's Stéphane Graber, *the* LXC and LXD project leader
> himself!
> As such, the package has received much love, very professionally
> packaged and very mature.
>
>     E: Unable to locate package golang-any-shared-dev
>     E: Unable to locate package golang-gopkg-flosch-pongo2.v3-dev
>     E: Unable to locate package golang-gopkg-inconshreveable-log15.v2-dev
>     E: Unable to locate package golang-gopkg-lxc-go-lxc.v2-dev
>     E: Unable to locate package golang-petname-dev
>
> golang-any-shared-dev can be ignored for now: it can simply be
> replaced by "golang-any" or similar in Debian.
> But wait, Ubuntu's Go actually has shared library support!?  What!?
> How?  Wow!  Amazing stuff!  Definitely news to me.
> See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/juju-core/+bug/1508122
> and the patch by Michael Hudson-Doyle.  Okay, Cc'ing Michael too.  :-)
>

Heh, yep, finally! I'd like this stuff to land in Debian too but let's see
how it goes in Ubuntu for a while first. Probably something for after
stretch.

Cheers,
mwh
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