Re: golang-goprotobuf 1.4+ (Was Re: disruptive uploads)

[Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 8:37 PM Reinhard Tartler <siretart@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 4:45 AM Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org> wrote:
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>> I think it again, maybe we should have both v1.3 and v1.4+ golang-gogoprotobuf together,
>> as we do the transition in C/C++ libraries. Some packages are difficult to be ported
>> to new api, so we end up with two duplications in archive.
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> Sorry, it seems my rambling caused more confusion than the french bits.
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> To clarify, I do think we need to have some (code) duplication in the archive, at least for a couple of months. I somehow assumed that we already did have the v1.4+ (the google.golang.org/protobuf) code in a separate source package, but apparently we have that only in experimental for now?

google.golang.org/protobuf -> golang-google-protobuf-dev, 1.27.1 in unstable
github.com/golang/protobuf -> golang-goprotobuf-dev, 1.3 in unstable,
1.4 in experimental
github.com/gogo/protobuf -> golang-gogoprotobuf-dev, also 1.3 in unstable

The names look similar to each other 🤦

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Shengjing Zhu