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Bug#928026: release-notes: document the state of security support for golang packages in Buster



Control: tags -1 patch

On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:29:58 +0000 Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
wrote:
> package: release-notes

> > This is already an issue in Stretch (e.g. #922170), but will be much
> > worse in Buster, so unless someone reliably commits to work on
> > this ASAP the available options are to drop everything Go apart
> > from the toolchain packages from buster or exclude of all that mess
> > from security updates so that people know what they can expect.
>  
> filing a bug (in coordination with Moritz) so this doesnt get forgotten.

I have pushed a first version (attached).

Paul
From f9cea40327e80aa405fc3878a54fcb4cad313027 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 22:06:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] issues.dbk: Go and static linking

Closes: #928026
---
 en/issues.dbk | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/en/issues.dbk b/en/issues.dbk
index 481df49b..14993901 100644
--- a/en/issues.dbk
+++ b/en/issues.dbk
@@ -506,6 +506,22 @@ $ sudo update-initramfs -u
       The same strategy will be applied for Thunderbird.
     </para>
   </section>
+
+  <section id="golang-static-linking">
+    <title>Go based packages</title>
+    <para>
+      The Debian infrastructure currently doesn't properly enable rebuilding
+      packages that statically link parts of other packages on a large
+      scale. Until buster that hasn't been a problem in practice, but with the
+      growth of the Go ecosystems it means that Go based packages won't be
+      covered by regular security support until the infrastructure is improved
+      to cope with these kind of packages in a maintainable manner.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      If updates are warranted, they can only come via regular point releases
+      and thus may be deployed late.
+    </para>
+  </section>
 </section>
 
 <section id="package-specific-issues">
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