[Bug 1267393] Re: [MIR] juju-core, juju-mongodb, gccgo, golang

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 05:33:37PM -0000, Michael Terry wrote:
> Though in this respect, golang isn't so different than C libraries, where
> an unexpected API update or library bug can cause ftbfs in
> reverse-depends.

It is different, because:

 - reverse-dependencies don't have to be rebuilt for a security update to a
   C library; even if an API does break, C revdeps can be left unbuildable
   for a while with much less impact
 - since we're not using shared libraries (at this point), there's nothing
   in the packaging of go packages (like sonames for C libraries) that
   signals to proposed-migration that there's been an incompatible change
   requiring a transition.

> But actually, I expected we could use Built-Using fields in our
> proposed-migration tooling to automatically test that reverse-depends
> could still build.  Is that not in the works yet?

I'm not aware that anyone has discussed integrating such functionality into
proposed-migration.

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