[pkg-go] Packaging a Go binary

[Onur Aslan]

I have a similar question.

I found a nice software written in go: gogs[1]. It is a lightweight
gitlab alternative. It was very useful for me and I decided to make a
Debian package. And soon I realised gogs have tons of external
dependencies[2]. It seems author is maintaining few modules in different
repositories for only this project.

And another issue is gogs is not working well with recent commit of one
(or more) of its dependencies. For example it's acting weird if you use
latest version of github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3. As in stated in .gopmfile
it depends on github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 = commit:e28cd440fa.

Even if I make standalone packages for dependencies, gogs will most
likely fail to build or run. Therefore I followed a different path. I
wrote a simple script to clone and checkout required commit for all
external dependencies and create proper directory structure for `go
build` and created a source tarball from this. I know it is not proper
way and it is not gonna work in Debian but I believe it's only way to
build this software.

So question is; is it even possible to release a Debian package for this
project or should I just give up?


1: https://github.com/gogits/gogs
2: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/blob/master/.gopmfile


On 2015-06-02, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> For the record: I’ll be replying on the thread to pkg-go-maintainers:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-go-maintainers/Week-of-Mon-20150601/000276.html