[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1118336: ncbi-entrez-direct: Fragile manual dependency setup causes FTBFS

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Hi, Mathias.

Mathias Gibbens <gibmat at debian.org> writes:

>   The fix is easy enough (see end of message), but I think it would be

Thanks for the report and patch!  I'll upload a fix in the next day or
two; sorry for any resulting inconvenience in the meantime.

> better to rely on dh-golang's abilities to properly setup the build
> environment for the golang part of this package.

That would absolutely have been my preference as well.  However, I had a
lot of trouble getting dh-golang to accommodate this package's
idiosyncratic arrangements and wound up bypassing it in this fashion
instead.  If you have a concrete suggestion as to how ncbi-entrez-direct
can make fuller use of dh-golang, I'm all ears.

In particular, this package doesn't have a Git repository (except
insofar as downstream packagers import it) or corresponding Go package
names, but rather puts executables' sources in a top-level cmd directory
and private library code in a top-level edirect directory, in a package
simply called edirect.  (Both directories have go.mod and go.sum files
that don't necessarily correspond to what Debian builds will pick up,
but that's presumably common enough not to be a problem.)

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