The branch time for the 2.44 release is approaching

[Matthias Klose]

On 14.01.25 11:48, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
>> I would love to see
>> https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/20241217152746.98360-1- 
>> benjamin.drung@canonical.com/
>> landed. It adds support for percent-encoded JSON in --package-metadata
>> to gold. The equivalent patch for ld landed weeks ago. It would be nice
>> to have ld and gold get the same feature in the upcoming release.
> 
> I am not going to approve or block this, since I am not really
> a gold aficionado, but if another global maintainer wants to
> step and review the patch then I have no problems with that.
> 
> Long term however we are planning to deprecate gold.  To that
> end the 2.44 release is going to be the first where the gold
> sources are provided in their own separate tarball and not in
> the standard binutils tarball.

looking at the 2.44 branch, the gold sources are still provided.  Is 
that going to change before the release, or is the separation delayed to 
2.45?

Thanks, Matthias