On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 02:45:54PM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 07/27/2018 08:28 AM, Jakub Cajka wrote: > > There are few big outstanding issues that needs to be solved that need > > more than individual work, most notably the Go packaging guidelines and > > tooling. I think that should be one of the first tasks for the SIG. > > I'm not looking to join the SIG, but I will share my experience with golang > in Fedora. > > It appears that packages are being dumped into Fedora and forgotten about. > I'm trying to package "Packer"[1] and ran into multiple dependencies that > were committed once and never updated. This has to change.
In my experience, the tough parts about these dependencies that got forgot about are: 1) they are only dependencies, nobody uses them for anything else; 2) many of them are not versioned upstream (we just have references to commits) 3) different applications that depend on them may need different revisions of them. while solving 3 is part of our duty as packagers (making sure to port the dependencies to use the latest versions of their dependencies), 2 seems to be quite common in the golang community... -- Athos Ribeiro http://www.ime.usp.br/~athoscr _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AID5NXKVSVTU55E4GRUK6LE2XZRL5YPL/
