----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicolas Mailhot via devel" <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Christophe de Dinechin" <cdupo...@redhat.com>, "Development discussions
> related to Fedora"
> <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: "Robin Lee" <nicolas.mail...@laposte.net>, "nicolas mailhot"
> <nicolas.mail...@laposte.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2019 8:39:12 AM
> Subject: Re: New Go Packaging Guidelines landed in rawhide (koji) today
>
> Le vendredi 05 juillet 2019 à 16:33 +0200, Christophe de Dinechin a
> écrit :
> >
> > Also, would anybody mind if I add a note on the guideline page
> > stating
> > that this is from F31 on, since the go-rpm-macros package does not
> > exist before. Unless there is a plan to create branches for earlier
> > releases?
>
> It could be done for previous releases, if someone was motivated
> enough. The macro code itself works, with trivial adjustments, on
> ancient releases like EL7. But, it depends on things in redhat-rpm-
> config, so backporting would demand to convince redhat-rpm-config
> maintainers to backport too.
>
> Anyway this is pretty academic right now, I doubt anyone would accept a
> backport without synchronized backport of the whole Go packageset, and
> that can not happen before eclipso finishes to update the stack in
> devel.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
You have omitted that the new macros stack is not fully backwards compatible,
so it would require more work on fixing the packages that are affected by the
breakage(AFAIK a bit under ~100). IMHO it is not a good idea to back-port this
to any stable Fedora release.
JC
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