[Docker-maint] Bug#860608: [pkg-golang-devel] Bug#860608: golang: FTBFS: Go version is "go1.6.1", ignoring -next /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/api/next.txt

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On 19 April 2017 at 20:55, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas at debian.org> wrote:

> On 19/04/17 at 09:05 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> > This is the third time an FTBFS report against this package (which was
> > removed from Debian) was submitted.
> >
> > The other two times were
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=855926 and
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848806, both were
> closed
> > asking for an explanation as to why the issue was filed in the first
> place.
>
> ... And none sending the question to the bug submitter.


Defeated by the Debian BTS, I didn't realize that you had to email the
submitter separately when closing a bug...


>
> > lucas, is this a bug in your rebuild infrastructure, or did something go
> > wrong with the removal?
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839364 (same issue as
> the
> > one you’re reporting) was closed by ftpmaster due to package removal.
>
> In my local Sources file, I have:


[...]


> 'Extra-Source-Only' means that there are still binary packages in the
> archive
> that were built using that version of the golang package.
>
> In fact, for that version:
> $ grep -e Package -e Using 127.0.0.1\:9999_debian_dists_
> testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages |grep -B1 'golang (= 2:1.6.1-2)'
> Package: golang-github-armon-go-metrics-dev
> Built-Using: golang (= 2:1.6.1-2), golang-github-datadog-datadog-go (=
> 0.0~git20150930.0.b050cd8-1), golang-github-prometheus-common (=
> 0+git20160321.4045694-1), golang-goprotobuf (= 0.0~git20160330-1),
> golang-procfs (= 0+git20150616.c91d8ee-1), golang-prometheus-client (=
> 0.7.0+ds-3), golang-protobuf-extensions (= 0+git20150513.fc2b8d3-4)
> --
> Package: golang-github-gosexy-gettext-dev
> Built-Using: golang (= 2:1.6.1-2)
> --
> Package: golang-github-hashicorp-go-msgpack-dev
> Built-Using: golang (= 2:1.6.1-2)
> --
> Package: golang-github-stretchr-objx-dev
> Built-Using: golang (= 2:1.6.1-2)
> --
> Package: golang-github-kr-pty-dev
> Built-Using: golang (= 2:1.6.1-2)
>
> This case could be ignored by the rebuild scripts, or binnmus could be
> trigerred to get rid of the other versions. I'm not sure it makes sense to
> ship
> that many copies of golang in stretch.
>
> I think I read something about an organized plan to get rid of such extra
> packages using binnmus, but maybe I was dreaming. Ccing debian-release at .
>

I think I heard something about that. FWIW, though, these Built-Using
fields are bogus, golang -dev packages just ship source and so do not
actually contain anything built by the mentioned version of the compiler. I
think I've managed to hammer this into everyone's heads now but I guess
there are plenty of packages in the archive that haven't had an upload
since then (so I guess the binNMUs could just drop the field?).

Cheers,
mwh
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