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 <asm@redhat.com> wrote:


On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 12:36 AM Robert-André Mauchin <zebob.m@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