[Bug 1794395] Re: upload golang-1.10 1.10.4 to all supported releases of ubuntu

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, 20:20 John Lenton, <john.lenton at canonical.com>
wrote:

> What can we do about architectures that need gccgo?
>

To be clear, the only such architecture is powerpc on xenial.


For snapd, my understanding is having snapd there does not offer anyone
anything - there has never been a core snap published for powerpc has there?

The most pragmatic thing to do would be to remove snapd/powerpc from xenial
although I don't quite know how that would work. I guess a less nuclear
option would be to just build an empty snapd package on powerpc.

>

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Title:
  upload golang-1.10 1.10.4 to all supported releases of ubuntu

Status in golang-1.10 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in golang-1.10 source package in Trusty:
  New
Status in golang-1.10 source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in golang-1.10 source package in Bionic:
  New

Bug description:
  [impact]
  To enable packages that are backported wholesale to all releases of Ubuntu (i.e. snapd) to stop depending on what is now a fairly ancient version of Go, we are going to upload 1.10 (the version of Go in 18.04 LTS) to xenial and trusty as well. This is an unusual "SRU" but the plan has been concocted with the approval of the Ubuntu security team (who I will ask to comment here to confirm their acceptance of the plan).

  [test case]
  $ apt install golang-1.10-go
  $ PATH=/usr/lib/go-1.10/bin:$PATH
  $ go version
  < check it's 1.10 >
  $ cat > trivial.go
  package main
  func main() {}
  $ go run trivial.go
  $ cat > trivialcgo.go
  package main
  import "C"
  func main() {}
  $ go run trivialcgo.go

  [regression potential]
  It's a new package so should not impact any existing behaviour. I'm not at all proposing to update the default version of Go in a stable release.

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