Re: upgrading golang-google-api-dev: how much caution is needed?

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>]

On 2020-09-28 14:35, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 2:15 PM Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> 
> wrote:
> > The latest version of rclone requires golang-google-api-dev 0.28 [1].
> > Current version is 0.21.
> >
> > How sensitive is the go ecosystem to golang-google-api-dev version?
> >
> > Should we take care to be careful, and upgrade in experimental first?
> >
> > Or just push google-api 0.28 straight into unstable?
>
> Typically I think there's no need to go through the experiment first.
> Because the existing packages won't break, as all are static linked.
> But people will file ftbfs bugs if things got broken.

OK, I'll aim to throw google-api straight into unstable.

> So basically we need to rebuild the reverse depends before uploading.
> Most people will use ratt(1).


Nice tool, thanks Shengjing.  I'll use it to check the r-deps.

Drew