From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com>
To: "Development discussions related to Fedora"
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Cc: "Vincent Batts" <vbatts(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 3:45:05 AM
Subject: Re: Go packaging
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 08:54:08PM +0200, Haïkel wrote:
> Currently, there is *no* golang packaging guidelines approved, so we
> shouldn't have accepted golang packages in the first place.
>
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/382
While we should be working on packaging guidelines, it has been very
useful gaining experience packaging real golang libraries (and finding
out how poor upstream decisions make distro packaging especially
difficult).
Rich.
No doubt golang upstream has left the packaging up to the creativity of others. And like
so many languages, this is very difficult.