----- Original Message -----
> From: "Josh Boyer" <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
> <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: "Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" <zbys...@in.waw.pl>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 5, 2021 9:45:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Fedora 34 Change: Golang 1.16 (System-Wide Change proposal)
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 2:40 PM Robbie Harwood <rharw...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> writes:
> >
> > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 03:19:16PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/golang1.16
> > >>
> > >> == Summary ==
> > >> Rebase of Golang package to upcoming version 1.16 in Fedora 34,
> > >
> > > No complaint about the Change, but...
> > > can we please stop saying "rebase"?
> > >
> > > That verb made sense when packaging was about a stack of patches and
> > > hacks. Nowadays maybe 90% of packages are just the upstream version,
> > > and another 9% have patches backported from git that will be dropped
> > > on the update to the next upstream version. Talking about a "rebase"
> > > is mostly confusing.
> >
> > Not really a defense, but this is what we call it internally for RHEL.
> > So even if we officially change the name, most of us are likely to keep
> > calling it rebase out of habit.
>
> I agree with you, Robbie. It'll hang around and we'll have to deal
> with it for a long time.
>
> However, even internally in RHEL we're starting to see "rebase" be
> really hard to understand. One team will mean "grab a new tarball
> that only contains a limited set of bug fixes" and another team will
> mean "grab an entirely new major version release that breaks ABI and
> on-disk format". We should honestly look at how to articulate these
> kinds of things better, both in Fedora and in RHEL. "Rebase" is
> quickly becoming meaningless.
>
> josh
I kind of agree with all that have been said and will add my point of view.
First I think that any term the we will invent or choose will eventually drift
in way that we might not agree with or want with little that anyone can do
about it.
I would argue that in this case it is the most that rebase can be, especially
with the need to actually rebuild "all" the Go packages to pick up the changes
in the compiler and standard Go library. Not much on the compiler side as all
the Fedora patches doesn't really need much re-basing(mostly just setting some
more saner defaults), but the other packages are rebased in a sense on top of
the new version of compiler.
I'm open to any improvement in the wording of the change, feel free to propose
something here or just edit the proposal, but please let me know as the wiki
AFAIK doesn't allow continuous notification on changes(or I haven't been able
to find it and enable it for myself).
JC
>
> > (And it does make sense for RHEL where backporting more patches is the
> > norm. I'm uncomfortable with the assertion that ~99% of all packages
> > have no downstream-only packages, but that might just be my bias in the
> > opposite direction, since I maintain a couple that do.)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Robbie
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