Control: tag -1 +help Maytham Alsudany <maytha8the...@gmail.com> 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 This package is severely outdated, and a new version is needed for 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 Turns out to be not strictly the case at this point, but leaving this package outdated is not a good idea.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go-genproto forwarders and use the above mentioned code in submodules (which can be found in the probably terribly outdated golang-google-api package [googleapi], cf #1059087).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
