On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 12:44 AM Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 5:52 PM Shengjing Zhu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry, it seems my rambling caused more confusion than the french bits.
>> >
>> > To clarify, I do think we need to have some (code) duplication in the 
>> > archive, at least for a couple of months. I somehow assumed that we 
>> > already did have the v1.4+ (the google.golang.org/protobuf) code in a 
>> > separate source package, but apparently we have that only in experimental 
>> > for now?
>>
>> google.golang.org/protobuf -> golang-google-protobuf-dev, 1.27.1 in unstable
>> github.com/golang/protobuf -> golang-goprotobuf-dev, 1.3 in unstable,
>> 1.4 in experimental
>> github.com/gogo/protobuf -> golang-gogoprotobuf-dev, also 1.3 in unstable
>>
>> The names look similar to each other 🤦
>
> Thanks, that table is really helpful. I guess I'm then proposing to introduce 
> a new source package (maybe golang-goprotobuf-1.4-dev) that has the code of 
> version 1.4 and is co-installable with golang-goprotobuf-dev.
>
> Would that work?

Yeah, I thought we should have two packages. But I'm not sure how they
could be co-installable. And how to deal with them when building.

-- 
Shengjing Zhu

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