Re: golang-goprotobuf 1.4+ (Was Re: disruptive uploads)
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 12:44 AM Reinhard Tartler <siretart@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 5:52 PM Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry, it seems my rambling caused more confusion than the french bits.
>> >
>> > 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?
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>> 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 🤦
>
> Thanks, that table is really helpful. I guess I'm then proposing to introduce a new source package (maybe golang-goprotobuf-1.4-dev) that has the code of version 1.4 and is co-installable with golang-goprotobuf-dev.
>
> Would that work?
Yeah, I thought we should have two packages. But I'm not sure how they
could be co-installable. And how to deal with them when building.
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Shengjing Zhu
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