Jakub, I volunteer to do golang updates on EPEL7. I am the maintainer of singularity for EPEL/Fedora so I know how to use the tools. Just add d...@fedoraproject.org.
Dave On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 04:42:24PM +0100, Jakub Čajka wrote: > I have been doing updates to EPEL on my spare time at best effort basis, > usually > coupled to the work on the Go in Fedora. Unfortunately recently I don't have > much spare time to use there. > > I have been trying to keep the EPEL on the odd(just arbitrary coincidence) > release of Go for entirety of its life time. Giving EPEL stable version of Go > for roughly a year. > > Really from my perspective someone needs to show up to do the work there. > EPEL's > golang is de facto orphaned for several years now(4+??). If anyone is > volunteering I will be happy to help with on-boarding/reviewing. Even just > PR/MR > will be welcomed. > > JC > > > On Tue, 2021-12-21 at 10:46 +0100, Alejandro Saez Morollon wrote: > > For the record, there's an ongoing conversation in this bug about this > > topic: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2013628 > > > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 10:01 AM Alejandro Saez Morollon <a...@redhat.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 12:36 AM Robert-André Mauchin <zebo...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > On 12/1/21 20:11, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > > > > What will it take to get golang updated on epel7 from the no longer > > > > > supported version 1.15? RHEL8.5 reports a long list of security > > > > > problems that are fixed in 1.16. > > > > > > > > > > Dave > > > > > > > > Jakub or Alex, do you know whose prerogative is this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think Jakub is more appropriate than me to answer this question because > > > I > > > never built EPEL but, as far as I remember, from a conversation with > > > Jakub, > > > he was doing major upgrades of odd versions. > > > Mainly because a major version is going to be there for ~1 year and that > > > gives a little stability to the users of EPEL. > > > If what I said is accurate, the lack of 1.17 on Fedora is what made this > > > scenario. > > > > > > Nevertheless, Go 1.15 doesn't have support anymore from upstream so I > > > would > > > say that we should upgrade it. > > > I have no problems with trying to upgrade it to 1.16 or 1.17. > > > > > > What do you think? > > > > > > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > > > Robert-André > > > > > _______________________________________________ golang mailing list -- golang@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to golang-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/golang@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
