About quic-go and qtls-go library

[Mikel Olasagasti]

Hi all,

This is an informative mail about how quic-go and it's
golang-github-marten-seemann-qtls-goX-XX dependency work.

As upstream explains[1]: "quic-go is tied to the version of the Go
compiler. Any release that we cut supports the two most recent Go
version.".

This behavior requires a new package of
`golang-github-marten-seemann-qtls-go` per major release.

Currently Fedora has packaged the following versions:

golang-github-marten-seemann-qtls-go1-15
golang-github-marten-seemann-qtls-go1-16
golang-github-marten-seemann-qtls-go1-17
golang-github-marten-seemann-qtls-go1-18
golang-github-marten-seemann-qtls-go1-19

Fedora has the following golang releases:

rawhide: 1.19
f36      1.18
f35      1.16
epel7    1.17

This means that version for 1.15 can be retired safely now and each of
the releases previous to 1.19 can be retired also from rawhide.

Then, once every new golang major release is added, previous version
of the golang-github-marten-seemann-qtls-go package should be retired
from rawhide, as it doesn't make any sense to keep maintaining it for
the next Fedora release.

So, unless someone thinks this should be handled differently, I'll
start retiring all versions <1.19.

Kind regards,
Mikel Olasagasti (mikelo2)

[1] https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go/wiki/quic-go-and-Go-versions

[Maxwell G]

Aug 1, 2022 11:10:55 PM Mikel Olasagasti :
> So, unless someone thinks this should be handled differently, I'll
> start retiring all versions <1.19.

Do other packages still depend on the old versions? If so, you'd need to deal with those before retiring the packages you mentioned to avoid breaking anything.

(I can also check myself when I'm back at my laptop.)
--
Thanks,

Maxwell G (@gotmax23)
Pronouns: He/Him/His

[Mikel Olasagasti]

Hau idatzi du Maxwell G ([e-mail]) erabiltzaileak (2022 abu. 3,
az. (09:22)):
> Aug 1, 2022 11:10:55 PM Mikel Olasagasti :
> > So, unless someone thinks this should be handled differently, I'll
> > start retiring all versions <1.19.
>
> Do other packages still depend on the old versions? If so, you'd need to deal with those before retiring the packages you mentioned to avoid breaking anything.

There should no other package depending on these versions. I checked with:

dnf repoquery --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo=rawhide --whatrequires
"golang-github-marten-seemann-qtls-go1-XX-devel"

But, what may happen is that if we push an update for quic-go on every
current branch, quic-go may fail as it supports only some golang
versions and enforce it at code level.

https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go/tree/master/internal/qtls

So the plan should be to have just one version of
golang-github-marten-seemann-qtls-go1-XX-devel for each Fedora release
matching the golang version and if quic-go is updated check if can be
built on older current Fedora versions before pushing to those
releases.

Kind regards,
Mikel