On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 at 04:40, Dr. Tobias Quathamer <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 23.12.25 um 05:31 schrieb Tianon Gravi: > > Whether we do test rebuilds or not, we definitely need to coordinate a > > transition with the release team - in fact, we probably *should* coordinate > > a transition for every upload of src:golang-X.Y also, but I'm not sure and > > it's probably worth double checking that we haven't been causing unnecessary > > excess labor for them. > > > > Quoting from https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions, which > > contains the relevant text: > > > >> The Release Team considers everything a transition where the upload of a > >> package requires changes (rebuilds or actual patches) to reverse > >> dependencies. > > Hi Tianon, > > sorry for my late reply. I'd like to get this going again, as you've > already prepared golang 1.26 (thanks for that, by the way!). > > I think by now it might make more sense to skip 1.25 entirely and bump > the -defaults package to 1.26 directly, because the stable release of > 1.26 is probably not far away. > > If we need to do a test rebuild, I think it's better to wait a little > longer for 1.26 and start the rebuilds with the new version, instead of > rebuilding now with 1.25 and doing the same for 1.26 in two or three weeks. > > Anyway, about the rebuilding and transition: Have you had the chance to > reach out to the release team, to ask them about their view on this > matter? Do they think that a transition is necessary? > > If not, I'd be happy to write them a mail, but I thought I'd ask you > first, because it seems that you've been doing most (if not all) of the > new golang compiler uploads.
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten to writing such a mail -- I did the recent uploads because they were security-related. 😬 If you'd like to do so, please do! That would be very helpful. 😄 ♥, - Tianon
