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   Am 19.02.26 um 07:10 schrieb Tianon Gravi:   
   > It's a tiny bit tangential, so apologies for that, but I think it   
   > would probably be prudent to finally do something about gccgo too,   
   > while we're opening the hood on src:golang-defaults.   
   >    
   > For a long time now, gccgo has been stuck at an implementation of Go   
   > 1.18, but even then, it's only a *partial* implementation of 1.18   
   > (notably missing generics).   
   >    
   > As noted and discussed in the CC'd https://bugs.debian.org/961916,   
   > bin:gccgo-go's version is misleading at best and actively harmful at   
   > worst, because it *looks* like it's 1.24, and this is where I think   
   > the overlap with the proposal to update to 1.26 appears - that number   
   > drifts even further from any truth.   
   >    
   > In ideating on solutions, I was thinking about doing something really   
   > goofy, like having bin:gccgo-go have a Version: that's 1.18 or   
   > something, but that ship has sailed (we can't downgrade in the   
   > archive), and it would be really poor behavior for one source package   
   > to do that anyhow.   
   >    
   > So concretely, what I'd propose for src:golang-defaults 1.26+ is that   
   > we remove all traces of gccgo entirely instead.  This is somewhat   
   > disruptive, but I don't think it's unreasonable.  Every interesting   
   > architecture is currently supported by upstream golang-go, gccgo   
   > hasn't been a suitable GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP for Go itself for several   
   > versions now, and gccgo is a very outdated implementation.  On top of   
   > all that, I strongly doubt there are many (if any) meaningful Go   
   > packages left in the archive that really successfully build with   
   > gccgo.   
      
   Hi Tianon,   
      
   thanks for raising this topic. I think it's a very sensible idea. I   
   wouldn't mind dropping gccgo from the golang-defaults package. I've   
   already looked at your MRs on salsa, and from a quick glance, both MRs   
   look good to me (but I haven't tested them yet).   
      
   However, I'd really like to move the default compiler to golang-1.26   
   rather sooner than later, because golang-1.24 is no longer supported by   
   upstream after the release of golang-1.26.   
   You know that, most probably. :-)   
      
   So I'm wondering if it might be better to upload an updated   
   golang-defaults package in the next few days (still *with* gccgo)? We'd   
   have more time to roll out your MRs in a later upload, then. This way,   
   we could wait for more opinions from other golang-compiler team members.   
      
   On the other hand, I don't know how many people are currently really   
   involved in this team. :-)   
      
   Regards,Tobias   
      
      
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