[pkg-golang-devel] Bug#832160: Bug#832160: golang-defaults: Upgrading golang-go did not change /usr/lib/go dir to symlink (hence godoc fails)

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

Hey,

Thanks, committed to master (I took out the rules change though as I'm
99.9% that doesn't do anything).

Cheers,
mwh

On 23 July 2016 at 12:21, Anthony Fok <foka at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: golang-defaults
> Version: 2:1.6.1+1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
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> I was on my way out and wanted to access Go documentation off-line,
> so I tried running godoc, and got the following error messages:
>
>     $ godoc -http=:6060
>     2016/07/22 14:36:32 updateMetadata:
>         open /usr/lib/go/doc: no such file or directory
>     2016/07/22 14:36:32 updateMetadata:
>         open /usr/lib/go/doc: no such file or directory
>
> I initially suspects a bug with the golang-golang-x-tools package
> to which /usr/bin/godoc belongs, but it turns out that /usr/lib/go
> on my computer is an empty directory, whereas golang-go (from the new
> golang-defaults source package) contains /usr/lib/go as a symlink to
> /usr/lib/go-1.6.  This affects users like me who upgrade from
> pre-"golang-defaults" golang-go to the current golang-go.
>
> With the help of dpkg-maintscript-helper(1), this transition can be
> handled quite nicely.  The attached patch adds
> debian/golang-go.maintscript and modifies debian/rules to do so,
> and has been tested to work locally.
>
> Note: debian/golang-go.maintscript runs "#!/usr/bin/dh-exec" and thus
>       needs to have "chmod +x" set.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anthony
>
> - -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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