Hey Debian Golang team,
Just wanted to follow up on Michel's email here. I'm not a DD, but from
poking around a bit it seems like getting a new upstream version into
unstable would get this package back for people as well as unblock all
of the packages (like sugarjar) that depend on it and would be much
easier lift than the currently blocked MR to try to backport a bunch of
fixes for bookworm.
Is there any plan to update gh in sid? As a Debian (sid) user, I quite
appreciate sugarjar being in Debian. :)
Thanks and Happy Holidays!
- Phil
On 12/10/25 1:23 PM, Michel Lind wrote:
Dear Debian Go Packaging Team,
gh got removed from testing today due to #1119130 and #1120253:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gh
and this transitively removed sugarjar, which depends on gh (the
upstream developer is cc:ed)
Is there any issue preventing it from being updated in unstable? The
current version (2.46.0) is far behind upstream (2.83.1) and in fact
one of the issue is about it using deprecated GitHub APIs.
The existing merge request
(https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/gh/-/merge_requests/5) is
stalled and is for backporting fixes to bookworm, which hopefully is
orthogonal to rebasing the package in sid.
(I have not done Golang packaging for Debian before, and given time
constraint I probably won't be able to look into it for a few weeks
anyway, but hopefully someone here can take a stab at it).
Best regards,
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