[pkg-go] Plans for uploading Go 1.5 to unstable?

[Michael Stapelberg]

The way I see it, if you can reasonably run ratt and do the analysis before
uploading, that’s great, but it shouldn’t be required.

For the compiler, I’d prefer having it available earlier over avoiding
breakage.

For random libraries, I’d prefer the opposite.

Part of the rationale is that for libraries, there’s often a good chance
the library screwed it up, and we should fix the library. For the compiler,
I think that’s very rare, so likely we’ll need to fix the downstream
packages anyway. Plus, if it’s big projects like docker, the project should
have had enough time with the compiler release candidates to ensure
compatibility.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Tianon Gravi <admwiggin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure! :)  On the Docker end, the discussion is in
> https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/15703 (and you're correct that
> it's Docker doing something "wrong", but isn't it still worth checking
> so we don't get random FTBFS?  or do we just not worry about it and do
> something about them as they come?)
>
> ♥,
> - Tianon
>   4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36  4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4
>
>
> On 15 October 2015 at 11:08, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > Do you have a link with details? I’m curious.
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Tianon Gravi <admwiggin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 15 October 2015 at 10:40, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at debian.org>
> >> wrote:
> >> > FWIW, I don’t think that’s necessary for the compiler itself. Go
> adheres
> >> > to
> >> > its Go 1 stability guarantee, and any package which breaks likely did
> >> > something wrong in the first place :). If this is the only thing
> that’s
> >> > holding back the upload, I’d recommend to just go ahead with the
> upload.
> >>
> >> Right, in theory, that's supposed to be the case.  I've seen several
> >> examples already where that's not the case, including Docker itself.
> >>
> >> ♥,
> >> - Tianon
> >>   4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36  4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Michael
>



-- 
Best regards,
Michael
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