On Tuesday, 5 April 2016 10:41:04 PM AEST Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > | Backports are packages taken from the next Debian release (called > | "testing"), adjusted and recompiled for usage on Debian stable. > > So my confusion here is that you don't want to see them in Stable, but > you do want to see them in testing (and backports). This isn't what > testing is for, of course :)
I'm not comfortable with this idea. It requires a lot more work as well.
I just entertain possibility if we have to drop golang apps from next stable.
After all even if not in next stable we might have some good ideas for next
stable+1...
> I don't see anything inherent about Go that makes it unsupportable.
You are certainly more optimistic than I am. :)
> I *do* see more software being developed in a way that makes it nearly
> impossible for Debian to distribute.
But I'm not talking about distribution. We can distribute but security
support is very difficult. Maybe we should just give up on it...
> This, however, is a much bigger conversation.
True...
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