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

[Potter, Tim (HPE Linux Support)]

On 9 Jul 2016, at 3:52 PM, Martín Ferrari <tincho at tincho.org> wrote:
> 
> Moritz,
> 
> On 08/07/16 20:21, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:

>> And with that setup (and in addition to what Florian mentioned) I see
>> no sane way that we can support Go applications in stretch. It's
>> already difficult enough to support a distro of the size of Debian with
>> volunteers only.
> 
> So what would be the way forward for this? Declaring golang apps to be
> not supported for security updates? I am ready to live with that,
> although I know I will do any work needed to prepare security fixes for
> the few apps I maintain.

A declaration of non-support for security updates for golang apps is not my
preferred solution either.  (-:

I'm willing to talk with our security team at HPE to work out something here
for the stretch release though.


Tim.

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