[pkg-golang-devel] Go compiler team

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 11:42, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at debian.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 11:24 PM Dr. Tobias Quathamer <toddy at debian.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> recently, I've become involved in the golang compiler packaging. I did
>> some cleanups of obsolete packages (golang-1.6 up to golang-1.9) and
>> asked for removal from unstable.
>>
>> FTP master has now removed those packages, and I'm currently trying to
>> get the release team to rebuild all arch:any go packages with the
>> current compiler in unstable, so that those packages have a fresh
>> "Built-Using":
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/916642
>>
>>
> Thanks for your help with the compiler packaging!
>

Yes, many thanks for stepping up and taking this on.


> Regarding the compiler packages, I've uploaded golang-1.11 to NEW, and
>> it has been accepted a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, the build on
>> mips64el fails, and I'm not sure why. Any help would be appreciated here.
>>
>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=golang-1.11
>>
>> Last, not least, a beta release of golang-1.12 is around the corner, and
>> I plan to upload it rather soon, so that we have a chance to get the
>> package accepted in time for buster.
>>
>> Which leads me to my next question: The mailing list I'm currently
>> writing to has been migrated from alioth. However, it seems to me that
>> it mostly attracts spam (and the automatic mails from FTP master).
>>
>> Should this list be kept? My suggestion would be to set up a team at
>> tracker.d.o (e.g. "go-compiler") and use the address
>> "team+go-compiler at tracker.d.o" as maintainer address in d/control.
>> Everybody who would like to get notifications about new uploads, bugs
>> etc. can then join that team. Thoughts?
>>
>
> Sounds good to me!
>

Me too.

Cheers,
mwh


>
>> Last, not least, is anyone working on the security support of golang
>> packages for buster? See the thread starting here:
>>
>>
>> https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-go-maintainers/Week-of-Mon-20180903/023312.html
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>
> Not me, so if you have spare cycles for it, that’d be great :)
>
>
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>>
>> Regards,
>> Tobias
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michael
>
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