Re: golang 1.16 for epel7?

[Dave Dykstra]

Jakub,

I volunteer to do golang updates on EPEL7.  I am the maintainer of
singularity for EPEL/Fedora so I know how to use the tools.  Just add
[e-mail].

Dave

On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 04:42:24PM +0100, Jakub Čajka wrote:
> I have been doing updates to EPEL on my spare time at best effort basis, usually
> coupled to the work on the Go in Fedora. Unfortunately recently I don't have
> much spare time to use there.
>
> I have been trying to keep the EPEL on the odd(just arbitrary coincidence)
> release of Go for entirety of its life time. Giving EPEL stable version of Go
> for roughly a year.
>
> Really from my perspective someone needs to show up to do the work there. EPEL's
> golang is de facto orphaned for several years now(4+??). If anyone is
> volunteering I will be happy to help with on-boarding/reviewing. Even just PR/MR
> will be welcomed.
>
> JC
>
> On Tue, 2021-12-21 at 10:46 +0100, Alejandro Saez Morollon wrote:
> > For the record, there's an ongoing conversation in this bug about this topic:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2013628
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 10:01 AM Alejandro Saez Morollon 
> > wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 12:36 AM Robert-André Mauchin 
> > > wrote:
> > > > On 12/1/21 20:11, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> > > > > What will it take to get golang updated on epel7 from the no longer
> > > > > supported version 1.15?  RHEL8.5 reports a long list of security
> > > > > problems that are fixed in 1.16.
> > > > >
> > > > > Dave
> > > >
> > > > Jakub or Alex, do you know whose prerogative is this?
> > >
> > > I think Jakub is more appropriate than me to answer this question because I
> > > never built EPEL but, as far as I remember, from a conversation with Jakub,
> > > he was doing major upgrades of odd versions.
> > > Mainly because a major version is going to be there for ~1 year and that
> > > gives a little stability to the users of EPEL.
> > > If what I said is accurate, the lack of 1.17 on Fedora is what made this
> > > scenario.
> > >
> > > Nevertheless, Go 1.15 doesn't have support anymore from upstream so I would
> > > say that we should upgrade it.
> > > I have no problems with trying to upgrade it to 1.16 or 1.17.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> > > > Best regards,
> > > >
> > > > Robert-André