[pkg-go] Security support for packages written in Go

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Tuesday, 5 April 2016 10:08:04 PM AEST Peter Colberg wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 09:24:20AM +1000, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> > Unless we can exclude Golang from security support I think we should not
> > ship any Golang applications with next stable release.
> 
> I really hope not, that would be a real shame.

I know. :(


> All the work that we did together on acmetool (#817091) would have
> been for nothing.

Nope. Even installing manually from "testing" provides significant advantages 
and added value comparing to installing from outside of Debian repositories.


> The only reason I went through the trouble of
> packaging all these Go modules is to have acmetool in the stretch
> release so it can be used on stable servers.

I feel your pain. Over last 9 months I've invested even greater effort to 
packaging of containers related Golang software.

Yet we can provide anything we want to users of stable releases through 
official backports:

    http://backports.debian.org/

-- 
Regards,
 Dmitry Smirnov.

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