Re: golang-goprotobuf 1.4+ (Was Re: disruptive uploads)
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 2:32 AM Reinhard Tartler <siretart@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 8:23 PM Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org> wrote:
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>> golang-goprotobuf is special so let's start a new thread.
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> good call!
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>> 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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> It seems that we currently have 243 packages declaring a "Build-Depends" relationship in unstable on the old 1.3 golang-gogoprotobuf package, and "only" 7 on the new golang-google-protobuf-dev. That's an awful lot of breakage.
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> Shengjing, would it be feasible to keep golang-gogoprotobuf at 1.3 and have packages move over to google-protobuf-dev "peu-a-peu"?
Sorry, I don't get what it means. What is "peu-a-peu"?
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Shengjing Zhu
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