[pkg-go] Bug#898397: dh-make-golang: allow authentication to github API to avoid hitting limits

[Paul Wise]

Package: dh-make-golang
Version: 0.0~git20180410.bcfd5bf-1
Severity: wishlist

I packaged a bunch of dependencies for git-lab and then I started
getting 403 errors from github URLs. It looks like dh-make-golang
easily hits the github API rate limit for anonymous users.

Allowing authenticated requests could help to avoid the limit.

$ dh-make-golang make github.com/avast/retry-go
2018/05/11 12:51:52 Downloading "github.com/avast/retry-go/..."
2018/05/11 12:51:53 Determining upstream version number
2018/05/11 12:51:53 Package version is "1.0.2"
2018/05/11 12:51:53 Determining dependencies
2018/05/11 12:51:57 Could not determine long description for "github.com/avast/retry-go": unexpected HTTP status: got 403, want 200
2018/05/11 12:51:58 Could not determine copyright for "github.com/avast/retry-go": parsing time "" as "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z": cannot parse "" as "2006"
2018/05/11 12:51:59 Could not determine author for "github.com/avast/retry-go": parsing time "" as "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z": cannot parse "" as "2006"
2018/05/11 12:51:59 Could not determine long description for "github.com/avast/retry-go": unexpected HTTP status: got 403, want 200
...

$ curl -s https://api.github.com/users/pabs3 | jq
{
  "message": "API rate limit exceeded for <removed>. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)",
  "documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting"
}

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dh-make-golang depends on:
ii  git               1:2.17.0-1
ii  git-buildpackage  0.9.8
ii  golang-any        2:1.10~5
ii  libc6             2.27-3
ii  pristine-tar      1.42

Versions of packages dh-make-golang recommends:
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.91-3

dh-make-golang suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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