[pkg-go] automatic rebuild of binaries

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦ 25 février 2014 00:57 CET, Ximin Luo <infinity0 at pwned.gg> :

> This is counter-intuitive, and IMO a problem. Do people agree, and if
> so, how shall we try to solve it? One option is to set up other
> infrastructure to poke the maintainer of a binary to do a re-build
> when the shared libraries update. This is likely to happen quite often
> though, and creates a lot of manual work that is fundamentally
> unnecessary. Does Debian support anything like automatic rebuilding?

Go advocates for an always backward compatible API. Therefore,
automatically rebuilding packages should work like ABI versioning is
making dynamic linking work even when the library changes.

However, I have doubts that everybody will strictly adhere to this
principle. How should we handle library without backward compatible API?
Is it a bug?
-- 
panic("IRQ, you lose...");
	2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/arch/mips/sgi/kernel/indy_int.c
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