Control: tag -1 +help
Maytham Alsudany writes:
> This package is severely outdated, and a new version is needed for
> github.com/google/trillian (indirect dependency of miniflux).
I took a look at updating this package, because I suspect it will be
needed for newer versions of golang-google-grpc. Turns out to be not
strictly the case at this point, but leaving this package outdated is
not a good idea.
I found that upstream uses the repository as for a couple of purposes:
a) convenience repostiory for "pre-generated" .pb.go files in the
folders googleapis and firestore, cf. [1,2]
b) Place compatibility forwarders to the package
google.golang.org/protobuf [3]
For a), that seems icky to me. The .proto definitions for those
googleapis can be found in
https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis/tree/master/google/firestore/bundle. I
don't think we currently package those files in Debian. Oh well.
For b), I understand from [issue1015] that google is in the process of
removing those forwarders. The best course of action here seems to me to
avoid this repo in favor of using the actual definitions.
In order to maintain backwards compatibiliy, this googleapis/go-genproto
has now change [pr#901] that effectively adds dependencies "on virtually
all every submodule in cloud.google.com/go." This is extremely
inconvenient for us to package.
I looked at trillian, and it seems they do rely on these compatibility
shims. I wonder how much work would be involved to update the trillian
code to avoid these go-genproto forwarders and use the above mentioned
code in submodules (which can be found in the probably terribly outdated
golang-google-api package [googleapi], cf #1059087).
At this point, focusing on #1059087 might be the best thing to focus on
for now.
Thoughts or opinions?
-rt
[1]
https://sources.debian.org/src/golang-google-genproto/0.0~git20210726.e7812ac-2/googleapis/
[2]
https://sources.debian.org/src/golang-google-genproto/0.0~git20210726.e7812ac-2/firestore/
[3]
https://sources.debian.org/src/golang-google-genproto/0.0~git20210726.e7812ac-2/protobuf
[issue1015]
https://github.com/googleapis/go-genproto/issues/1015
[pr#901]
https://github.com/googleapis/go-genproto/pull/901
[googleapi]
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-google-api
