[pkg-go] Bug#798585: golang-go-md2man-dev: v1.0.3 unusable as a library; please upgrade to snapshot
Anthony Fok
foka at debian.org
Thu Sep 10 19:02:00 UTC 2015
Package: golang-go-md2man-dev
Version: 1.0.3-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream
Hello Tianon and friends,
While trying to build golang-github-spf13-cobra (See Bug#798416),
which Build-Depends on golang-go-md2man-dev, I ran into the following
error:
debian/rules build
dh build --buildsystem=golang --with=golang
dh_testdir -O--buildsystem=golang
dh_auto_configure -O--buildsystem=golang
dh_auto_build -O--buildsystem=golang
go install -v github.com/spf13/cobra
src/github.com/spf13/cobra/man_docs.go:24:2: cannot find package "github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/md2man" in any of:
/usr/lib/go/src/github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/md2man (from $GOROOT)
/home/foka/debian/go/golang-github-spf13-cobra/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src/github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/md2man (from $GOPATH)
dh_auto_build: go install -v github.com/spf13/cobra returned exit code 1
debian/rules:4: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: *** [build] Error 1
According to https://github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/pull/14
"Pull Request #14: md2man usable as a library (again)" by @eparis
(my comments in square brackets):
[commit] d92bbe0 [coinciding with the upstream go-md2man v1.0.3 release
on 17 Jun 2015] moved things from [the] mangen [directory] into
the root subdir and changed the package to main. While this makes
sense for this utility[,] others use go-md2man to generate docs
automatically.
Instead of building a binary to do it. Move roff back out to a package
which can get included and used by others.
Including github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man seems reasonable but has 2
problems.
1) now you likely have two func main() in package main
2) go-md2man defined in and out flags which would then show up in
auto generated lists of flags in these other projects
To which go-md2man's author @cpuguy83 promptly replied:
LGTM thanks, and sorry for breaking your setup!
and merged @eparis' pull request, moving the import path to
"github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/md2man".
According to build-rdep, there is no other package that Build-Depends
on golang-go-md2man-dev---golang-github-spf13-cobra will be the first
(docker.io Build-Depends on go-md2man only), so I foresee no breakage
by upgrading go-md2man to the latest upstream snapshot.
Meanwhile, on second thought, I decided to filee a GitHub issue asking
@cpuguy83 to consider releasing the latest snapshot as v1.0.4:
https://github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/issues/15
So if you would rather wait for the v1.0.4 release, that is OK with me too.
Many thanks for your help!
Anthony Fok
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages golang-go-md2man-dev depends on:
ii golang-blackfriday-dev 1.2-2
golang-go-md2man-dev recommends no packages.
golang-go-md2man-dev suggests no packages.
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