uploading golang-1.10 everywhere

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 06:29, Jamie Strandboge <jamie at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > At the recent sprint in Brussels, there was some discussion of providing
> a way
> > for packages in older Ubuntu releases a way to build with a newer
> version of
> > Go. After some discussion with the security team, it was decided that it
> made
> > sense to upload Go 1.10 (which is after all going to be supported as
> part of
> > Bionic for 5 years) to the older releases. I'm mentioning this plan here
> (a)
> > for awareness (b) to get the security team to publicly acknowledge their
> > agreement to the plan :)
> >
> > There is a bug to track the uploads:
> >
> >     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-1.10/+bug/1794395
> >
> > All comments here or in the bug gratefully received.
> >
> This is fine with the security team (if it was a golang version that was
> in an interim release, that would be a different story, but we are
> already supporting this in bionic, so why not in earlier?). I commented
> in the bug too.
>

Thanks, I've uploaded golang-1.10 to the various UNAPPROVED queues now.

Cheers,
mwh
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