Re: declaring requirement on golang >= 1.22?

[Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org>]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Upstream 'sigsum-go' now depends on golang-1.22, how would I express
> this in debian/control?
>
> Build-Depends:
>  debhelper-compat (= 13),
>  dh-golang,
> - golang-any,
> + golang-any (>= 2:1.22~)
>
> Is that recommended?  I couldn't find any other golang packages with
> similar golang version dependency.
>

Yes.

Though unfortunately gccgo stops updating at 1.18. So on architectures
that don't have golang-go, you can only get gccgo that is not
compatible with go 1.22.

> Is this sufficient to get a bookworm-backport upload working?  That is,
> will the buildd's install golang-any 1.22 from bookworm-backports,
> instead of the old golang 1.19 in bookworm?  Or do I have to do anything
> more to get that?
>
> /Simon



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Shengjing Zhu