Go packaging

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:19:01AM +0200, Haïkel wrote:
> @Rich Jones: I agree with you that gaining experience, but that could
> be done using a copr repository or granting exceptions for a limited
> set of packages.

Well the specific case was that libguestfs has golang bindings, and we
wanted to package them as a subpackage in Fedora.

Copr doesn't help for subpackages.  I don't really see the need for an
exception either -- I mean, idiosyncratically[1] packaged golang
bindings would have been better than not packaging them at all.

I don't see much problem here if you assume good faith.  There's a
reasonable period where we are all working out what golang packaging
means, and there's going to be some experimentation during that
period.  It's somewhat uniquely a problem for golang because upstream
is so (IMO) broken.

Rich.

[1] This is for the sake of argument: in reality they were not
"idiosyncratically" packaged -- I tried and continue to try to adopt
and follow the interim golang packaging guidelines as far as possible.

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