Re: Plan for backporting golang to bullseye

[Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org>]

On വെ, നവം 19 2021 at 10:13:06 വൈകു +0530 +0530, 
Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When trying to build gitaly for bullseye-fasttrack (similar to 
> bullseye-backports but for packages that change too fast).
>
> # 
> gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/v14/proto/go/internal/cmd/protoc-gen-gitaly
> src/gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/v14/proto/go/internal/cmd/protoc-gen-gitaly/main.go:75:15: 
> undefined: io.ReadAll
> src/gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/v14/proto/go/internal/cmd/protoc-gen-gitaly/main.go:158:16: 
> undefined: os.ReadDir
>
> Searching for this error shows
> https://githubmemory.com/repo/kkdai/youtube/issues/194
>
> which indicates this needs golang 1.16+
>
> What is the plan for backporting golang 1.17 to bullseye? If the idea 
> is fine, I can help with backports.

I just noticed golang-1.17 is in bullseye-backports but golang-any is 
not updated. Can golang-any/golang-defaults be uploaded to 
bullseye-backports as well?

> Thanks
> Praveen