[pkg-go] Bug#980480: Bug#980480: autopkgtest always fail

[Shengjing Zhu]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 8:58 AM Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, 20 January 2021 2:46:07 AM AEDT Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> > What's the purpose of this line?
> > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libpod/-/blob/debian/2.1.1+dfsg1-4/debian/rules#L21
>
> The purpose should be self-explanatory: it prints auto-populated
> DH_GOLANG_INSTALL_EXTRA so we'd know what exactly have been found
> by wildcard patterns and so we'd have records of that in the build
> log.
>
> Valid Makefile syntax should not confuse autopkgtest.
>

However, to conform all valid Makefile syntax in autopkgtest-pkg-go is
a huge effort. And I don't think it will happen with current volunteer
resources.
So for podman, it can either keep this line and drop
autopkgtest-pkg-go, or write Makefile in a way that autopkgtest-pkg-go
can recognize.

-- 
Shengjing Zhu