Re: Golang Package.

2018-02-22 Thread John Lenton
On 21 February 2018 at 23:50, Mike Lloyd wrote: > Gotcha. Why is the standard package is so far behind in 16.04? Golang > doesn't have a concept of LTS. for what it's worth, note Michael has been very good about backporting bugfixes to 1.6 (thanks!) --

Re: Golang Package.

2018-02-22 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 04:17:01PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > But Ubuntu does have a concept of LTS, and this by definition applies to > everything Ubuntu ships. This is the point of a distribution stable > release. I should add that we understand that some users want some specific packages to

Re: Golang Package.

2018-02-22 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:50:13PM +, Mike Lloyd wrote: > Gotcha. Why is the standard package is so far behind in 16.04? Golang > doesn't have a concept of LTS. But Ubuntu does have a concept of LTS, and this by definition applies to everything Ubuntu ships. This is the point of a

Re: Golang Package.

2018-02-22 Thread Mike Lloyd
: Mike Lloyd Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Golang Package. It's up to date in Bionic. If you want a newer release in an older Ubuntu, there is this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~gophers/+archive/ubuntu/archive or you can use the snap (snap install --classic --channel 1.

Re: Golang Package.

2018-02-21 Thread Michael Hudson-Doyle
t;m...@reboot3times.org> wrote: > Hey team. I've noticed the golang package is always several major releases > behind. What is the process for getting this package updated? I'd like to > help if I can. > > Mike. > > Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef> > > -- > Ubuntu

Golang Package.

2018-02-21 Thread Mike Lloyd
Hey team. I've noticed the golang package is always several major releases behind. What is the process for getting this package updated? I'd like to help if I can. Mike. Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubun