Description
Context
The Go 1.13rc1 image was recently added which is great, but it was only added with a Debian buster variant. While buster is the current stable release, it only moved to stable very recently on July 6th 2019, with stretch moving to oldstable status. oldstable releases like stretch will continue to receive security updates for one year (ref).
Problem
It can be easier for many applications to be updated with new versions of Go than to update versions of Debian. It will take time for everyone to update applications and their dependencies to be compatible with buster. During that period an official Go 1.13 isn't available to folks who are not yet ready to upgrade from stretch, but could be running Go 1.13 on production workloads.
Speaking specifically to my own situation, I'm attempting to use Go 1.13 for stellar/go#1634, but I'm still working through a move to buster.
Proposal / Request
While the stretch debian release is still supported with security updates could we support a Go 1.13 image on stretch to give folks more time to transition to buster while being able to adopt Go 1.13 and run it in development and production workloads?