[pkg-go] May I upgrade golang-blackfriday, golang-testify, etc. to latest versions?

Paul Tagliamonte paultag at debian.org
Tue Sep 8 18:37:25 UTC 2015


On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 09:00:34AM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> >   1. ... just go ahead and update them?  :-)
> 
> Yes.

Yesish. Yes, you should absolutely update them, but you should also
check all their reverse build dependencies to ensure that we don't cause
FTBFSs. Yo, sECuRE - is RATT ready for team use?

> >   2. Or should I first ask for permissions from the previous uploaders?
> 
> You should at least let them know, but team policy is that we don’t
> have such strict ownership. The packages are team-maintained for a
> reason.

Absolutely true. Just be careful of an upload before we know what might
trigger FTBFSs -- upstreams in Goland seem to break API all the time, so
we should be a bit careful in leau of versioning.

> >   3. Or should I create new packages like golang-github-russross-blackfriday
> >       for the cutting-edge version, and leave golang-blackfriday
> >       as the stable 1.2 version?
> 
> No, but you should rename the existing packages to the proper name.
> See other recently uploaded packages for examples on how to do that
> with regards to Breaks/Replaces if you’re unsure about that.
> 
> >
> > Thank you for your advice!
> 
> Thank you for your contributions :).

+1!

Cheers,
   Paul
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