Ondřej Surý wrote: > Justin B Rye <j...@edlug.org.uk> wrote: >> Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>> Shouldn't this say "Go programming language compiler (weekly snapshot)" >>> or something similar to distinguish it from the main golang package? >> >> That's what I thought until I discovered that the only golang packages >> available for the golang metapackage to pull in are the -weekly ones. > > No. > > packages.qa.debian.org/g/golang.html
I don't see what you're pointing at there; .qa. pages don't list which individual binary packages exist in which release, do they? For that I went to the packages.debian.org listings, and when I checked a couple of weeks ago those seemed to say that the golang-weekly-* binary packages were the only ones available to provide golang-*. But that's not right... I don't know what went wrong there. Okay, in that case it's the golang packages that should have the revised version of the boilerplate advertising the Go language; the golang-weekly packages should have nothing but warnings, because people who don't already know what Go is shouldn't be going anywhere near them. [...] >> Bear in mind that these packages are already in Testing; if the idea >> is that some particular individual weekly snapshot is going to end up >> as the only version of golang released with Wheezy, the text above >> won't make much sense. > > No, they are not in the Testing: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/golang-weekly.html Now I'm very confused; how did my search for golang-weekly on packages.debian.org show me packages in Wheezy? Was I just doing my search too late at night? Oh, wait: it did migrate into Wheezy a couple of times last year, but it was removed. Was I seeing leftovers in obscure architectures? >>> By the way, why is this a separate source package instead of being >>> called golang in experimental? >> >> Or to put it another way, if the upstream versions of the last three >> golang-weekly releases are 2011.09.07, 2011.09.21, and 2012.01.27, why >> is it called -weekly? > > Because upstream do weekly releases, but I upload -weekly release when > I have a time. I need to automatize the process, but it goes back to > "when I have a time". Well, too late now, but golang-snapshot might have been less misleading. -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
