golang-goprotobuf 1.4+ (Was Re: disruptive uploads)
golang-goprotobuf is special so let's start a new thread.
On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 2:00 AM Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de> wrote:
> I have a similar problem with golang-goprotobuf, where I would like to see version 1.4.3 from experimental uploaded to unstable. In my case there are 240 reverse dependencies and ratt needed almost two days to rebuild everything.
>
Currently we have
+ golang-goprotobuf 1.3.x in unstable
the upstream is https://github.com/golang/protobuf, go mod name is
github.com/golang/protobuf
+ golang-google-protobuf in unstable
the upstream is https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf-go, go
mod name is google.golang.org/protobuf
Background:
The Go upstream has decided to do breaking change for Go protobuf,
which they call it v2.
The v2 is implemented in google.golang.org/protobuf package.
However in the transition period, the github.com/golang/protobuf
package is also including the v2, from v1.4+.
For go protobuf v2, there is one known breakage, which is the
golang-gogoprotobuf package,
However this package:
1. is dead, and looking for new maintainer
https://github.com/gogo/protobuf/issues/691
2. too many packages are still using it
3. golang-gogoprotobuf only has relationship with golang-goprotobuf,
not golang-google-protobuf.
The Go upstream seems having finished the transition period, now the
github.com/golang/protobuf is deprecated.
The official doc has recommended users to install protoc-gen-go from
google.golang.org/protobuf.
Why some packages need golang-goprotobuf v1.4+
Becauses they migrated to protobuf v2 in the upstream transitional
period. Which makes them depend both new golang-google-protobuf and
golang-goprotobuf v1.4+
Now the question for Debian to move forward.
1. Should we bump golang-goprotobuf to v1.4+, this will break packages
that still uses golang-gogoprotobuf, and unlikely will be fixed.
2. Should we stick golang-goprotobuf at v1.3, and only go with
golang-google-protobuf package?
This means we need to help upstream to finish the transition to
protobuf v2 with golang-google-protobuf only.
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Shengjing Zhu
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