On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 02:45:54PM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 07/27/2018 08:28 AM, Jakub Cajka wrote:
> There are few big outstanding issues that needs to be solved that need more than
individual work, most notably the Go packaging guidelines and tooling. I think that should
be one of the first tasks for the SIG.
I'm not looking to join the SIG, but I will share my experience with golang in
Fedora.
It appears that packages are being dumped into Fedora and forgotten about.
I'm trying to package "Packer"[1] and ran into multiple dependencies that
were committed once and never updated. This has to change.
In my experience, the tough parts about these dependencies that got
forgot about are:
1) they are only dependencies, nobody uses them for anything else;
2) many of them are not versioned upstream (we just have references to
commits)
3) different applications that depend on them may need different
revisions of them.
while solving 3 is part of our duty as packagers (making sure to port the
dependencies to use the latest versions of their dependencies), 2 seems
to be quite common in the golang community...
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Athos Ribeiro
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