Re: Bug#1121424: Re: please get v5 into unstable

[Reinhard Tartler <siretart@gmail.com>]

Hi Simon,

Regarding the file conflict issue, how about having the golang-github-cenkalti-backoff-v4-dev files installed under a subdirectory like /usr/share/gocode/src/github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4/ and the existing v5 files installed under /usr/share/gocode/src/github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v5/?

While this approach might still cause breakage in some packages that expect a simple, versionless import path, I expect it would require less overall patching across all of Debian and keeps the package structure closer to how Go upstream handles versioned imports.

Best regards,

Reinhard

regards,
    Reinhard

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 03:08 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:

I've uploaded to NEW:

https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-github-cenkalti-backoff-v4
https://salsa.debian.org/jas/golang-github-cenkalti-backoff-v4/-/pipelines/988017

Review appreciated!  I think everything except naming can be resolved
after it passes NEW review.

Is 'XS-Go-Import-Path: github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4' the right thing?
I'm not sure if that is the best way to add the /v4/ file-name suffix.
Something to avoid filename Conflicts will probably be needed, but it
could be done in other ways too.

/Simon