[pkg-go] Bug#974111: golang-github-spf13-pflag: Please consider bumping to latest git commit

[Arnaud Rebillout]

Source: golang-github-spf13-pflag
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Being part of the Go team, I know that we prefer packaging tagged
versions, rather than "latest git commit on maste" for Go packages.

However in this particular case:
- spf13/pflag sees very little maintenance (3 commits since Sep 2019)
- hence I don't expect to see a new release any time soon

However, among these 3 commits, the last one is required to build
docker.io: https://github.com/spf13/pflag/commit/85dd5c8

In the docker.io package, we have to embed a vendored copy of spf13/pflag
and spf13/cobra because of that. I'd be very pleased if I could drop
this vendored code and build docker.io using the spf13 Debian packages
instead.

Packaging the latest git commit of spf13/pflag would allow me to do
that, and simplify the docker.io packaging mess a bit.

Question: do you think in this case it would be OK to bump spf13/pflag
to latest commit? If so, I can do the job, including running ratt to
make sure nothing breaks.

Thanks,

Arnaud