Hi,I'm throwing this out to the team in hope of getting some help with a tricky problem regarding two packages central to the Prometheus ecosystem.
golang-github-prometheus-common and golang-github-prometheus-client-golang have a circular dependency on each other. They have also both long depended on golang-goprotobuf-dev (i.e., the v1.3.x branch of github.com/golang/protobuf).
Both prometheus-common and prometheus-client-golang require patching in order to build against golang-goprotobuf-dev, since the upstream versions require github.com/golang/protobuf 1.5.x.
Now that golang-goprotobuf-dev is a transitional dummy package for golang-github-golang-protobuf-1-3-dev, and golang-github-golang-protobuf-1-5-dev is available in sid, these patches can theoretically be dropped, and the dependencies updated.
However... this is where the circular dependency bites. I'm unable to modernize golang-github-prometheus-common to use protobuf-1-5-dev, since it depends on golang-github-prometheus-client-golang, which still depends on protobuf-1-3-dev, and results in a conflict. And vice versa.
To make matters even trickier, client-golang also depends on golang-github-prometheus-client-model-dev, which also depends on protobuf-1-3-dev.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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