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Debian stable releases have a 2+ year lifespan so even 1.9 would be out of date for most of the distro's life. Luckily Go is quite easy to install and use from

by mappu 9y ago

Debian stable releases have a 2+ year lifespan so even 1.9 would be out of date for most of the distro's life. Luckily Go is quite easy to install and use from an isolated directory, and the majority of Debian usage here would be as a target OS where the Go compiler version doesn't matter. Also jessie shipped Go 1.3 but it was updated to Go 1.7 in jessie-backports, so you can probably expect further Go updates in stretch-backports when it's released.

shmerl 9y ago
You don't need to use stable. Debian testing is rolling and only stalls during release freeze period.
- kfrzcode 9y ago
  I use unstable in my day to day and have had minimal problems.
  - icebraining 9y ago
    Same here, my laptop as been on unstable for over five years and it's been fine.
    - ReverseCold 9y ago
      Unless you need Debian for some reason, why not use one of the arch based distributions or fedora/some other redhat based one? Those always have the latest packages.
      - icebraining 9y ago
        I don't get the question. I already have the latest packages on Unstable, why would I switch?
- hsivonen 9y ago
  Does testing get timely security updates? Last I checked (quite a while ago), it explicitly did not.
  - shmerl 9y ago
    It gets them with regular delay of testing unless it's high priority. See: * https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch10.en.html#s-security-support-testing https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch1... * https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing
    - hsivonen 9y ago
      That's what I meant. Security support for testing seems to be documentedly behind stable and unstable.
skynode 9y ago
I've had a bad experience relying on repositories for my golang install. I'd rather manage golang the golang way.
- cure 9y ago
  There are a lot of ways to handle golang for Debian. Here's a quick command to build a golang-1.8.3 package with fpm (download and extract go1.8.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz first; get fpm from https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm): #!/bin/bash DEBIAN_REVISION=1 fpm -s dir -t deb -n golang-go -v 1.8.3-$DEBIAN_REVISION go1.8.3.linux-amd64/bin/go=/usr/local/bin/go go1.8.3.linux-amd64/bin/gofmt=/usr/local/bin/gofmt go1.8.3.linux-amd64/bin/godoc=/usr/local/bin/godoc go1.8.3.linux-amd64/=/usr/local/go

by mappu 9y ago

shmerl 9y ago

You don't need to use stable. Debian testing is rolling and only stalls during release freeze period.

kfrzcode 9y ago
I use unstable in my day to day and have had minimal problems.
- icebraining 9y ago
  Same here, my laptop as been on unstable for over five years and it's been fine.
  - ReverseCold 9y ago
    Unless you need Debian for some reason, why not use one of the arch based distributions or fedora/some other redhat based one? Those always have the latest packages.
    - icebraining 9y ago
      I don't get the question. I already have the latest packages on Unstable, why would I switch?
hsivonen 9y ago
Does testing get timely security updates? Last I checked (quite a while ago), it explicitly did not.
- shmerl 9y ago
  It gets them with regular delay of testing unless it's high priority. See: * https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch10.en.html#s-security-support-testing https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch1... * https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing
  - hsivonen 9y ago
    That's what I meant. Security support for testing seems to be documentedly behind stable and unstable.

skynode 9y ago

I've had a bad experience relying on repositories for my golang install. I'd rather manage golang the golang way.

cure 9y ago
There are a lot of ways to handle golang for Debian. Here's a quick command to build a golang-1.8.3 package with fpm (download and extract go1.8.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz first; get fpm from https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm): #!/bin/bash DEBIAN_REVISION=1 fpm -s dir -t deb -n golang-go -v 1.8.3-$DEBIAN_REVISION go1.8.3.linux-amd64/bin/go=/usr/local/bin/go go1.8.3.linux-amd64/bin/gofmt=/usr/local/bin/gofmt go1.8.3.linux-amd64/bin/godoc=/usr/local/bin/godoc go1.8.3.linux-amd64/=/usr/local/go