[pkg-go] Bug#835377: godoc requires explicit GOROOT

Marvin Renich mrvn at renich.org
Wed Aug 24 23:41:32 UTC 2016


Package: golang-golang-x-tools
Version: 1:0.0~git20160315.0.f42ec61-2
Severity: normal

The general recommendation is to not set GOROOT, because the go tools
know what it should be with a default install (see [1] and [2] and
numerous discussions on golang-nuts mailing list).

However, godoc does not use the implicit GOROOT (the one shown by go
env) and requires setting it explicitly to get expected behavior (e.g.
providing documentation for standard library packages).

...Marvin

[1] https://golang.org/doc/install
[2] http://dave.cheney.net/2013/06/14/you-dont-need-to-set-goroot-really

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages golang-golang-x-tools depends on:
ii  golang-golang-x-tools-dev  1:0.0~git20160315.0.f42ec61-2
ii  libc6                      2.23-4

golang-golang-x-tools recommends no packages.

golang-golang-x-tools suggests no packages.

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