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

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

Not a DD, sadly (yet!)

sent from my phone, please excuse brevity

On 21 Apr 2017 19:36, "Michael Stapelberg" <stapelberg at debian.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Michael Hudson-Doyle <
> michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> 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_t
>>> esting_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@