On 24 September 2016 at 05:25, Anthony Fok <f...@debian.org> wrote: > Hello all! > > (with added Cc to the Debian Go Team as well as > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:52:15 +0100 Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I think that an ITP that has been inactive this long could be taken over > by > > another interested party without it being a hijack, all things > considered. > > (I think some QA script might move it to RFP soon anyway). > > > > Adnan, how's it going? > > > > There's a pkg-lxc team already. Since this package is/will be very > inter-related to > > LXC, perhaps it should be developed in that team? Team CCed. Are they > interested? > > Are you in pkg-lxc already? > > > > What's the state of the Ubuntu package? Could that make a good starting > point? How > > much hacking before that would be suitable for an experimental upload at > least? > > I took a quick look at the package source obtained via: > > dget -u http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lxd/lxd_2. > 2-0ubuntu1.dsc > > This Ubuntu package is being maintained as an official Ubuntu package > by Canonical's Stéphane Graber, *the* LXC and LXD project leader > himself! > As such, the package has received much love, very professionally > packaged and very mature. > > E: Unable to locate package golang-any-shared-dev > E: Unable to locate package golang-gopkg-flosch-pongo2.v3-dev > E: Unable to locate package golang-gopkg-inconshreveable-log15.v2-dev > E: Unable to locate package golang-gopkg-lxc-go-lxc.v2-dev > E: Unable to locate package golang-petname-dev > > golang-any-shared-dev can be ignored for now: it can simply be > replaced by "golang-any" or similar in Debian. > But wait, Ubuntu's Go actually has shared library support!? What!? > How? Wow! Amazing stuff! Definitely news to me. > See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/juju-core/+bug/1508122 > and the patch by Michael Hudson-Doyle. Okay, Cc'ing Michael too. :-) >
Heh, yep, finally! I'd like this stuff to land in Debian too but let's see how it goes in Ubuntu for a while first. Probably something for after stretch. Cheers, mwh
