[pkg-go] Bug#894131: Bug#894131: Bug#894131: prometheus-alertmanager: New upstream release 0.14.0 available. Please package and backport to stretch.

[Martín Ferrari]

On 12/06/18 17:00, Daniel Swarbrick wrote:
> On 12.06.2018 17:50, Martín Ferrari wrote:
>> I had not heard about unsee until now, we should package it too! :) 
> That would totally rock!

I was just taking a look, the main thing would be to be able to build
all the JS stuff, but it does not seem too bad.. Just need to find the
time to do it :)

> There are a couple of other exporters which I think would be of quite
> high interest to a lot of sites, such as the snmp_exporter. Perhaps I
> could assist you packaging some of them.

That would be great! If you want to join, there is an IRC channel (no
mailing list for now) to chat and coordinate the packaging efforts:
#debian-prometheus in OFTC.

>> Yeah, the tilde will be removed once the final release is out.. But it
>> still seems like a bug to panic due to that. I don't know how upstream
>> presents the RC version number, but shouldn't that also break semver
>> parsing?
> The upstream version presents version number "0.15.0-rc.1", which
> doesn't throw any errors in the semver.Parse function
> (https://github.com/blang/semver/blob/master/semver.go). However, the
> Unsee dashboard uses the MustParse() variant of that function, which of
> course panics if Parse() returns an error.

Does it understand that 0.15.0-rc.1 is lower than 0.15.0, for example?
If that is the case, I could replace the tilde in the metadata.


> As you may have seen in the Github issue I opened, somebody is working
> on it to hopefully make it a little more tolerant and robust.

Yeah, but the solution proposed is just to strip everything after the
tilde, which does not seem like a good solution.

-- 
Martín Ferrari (Tincho)