Re: gitlab-shell buster-backports and golang 1.15

[Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org>]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 17:30, Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 5:23 PM Pirate Praveen 
> <praveen@onenetbeyond.org> wrote:
> It's a go1.13 feature
> https://github.com/golang/go/commit/f5c43b919499899fe006896643bbfebbea9d1995
>
> >  I tried building with newer golang-golang-x-net-dev as well as
> >  golang-any 1:1.14 but still fails with same error.
> >
> >  I suspect this could be related to version of golang, in
> >  unstable/testing it is 1.15 so we may need the newer golang version.
> >  Can someone confirm if this is indeed the case? If yes, do we plan 
> > to
> >  backport golang 1.15? I can also help with backporting.
>
> I think it has happened before? The aptitude resolver has a problem in
> -backports to pick up gccgo rather than golang-go.
> gccgo in buster only implements go1.10

I tried earlier with golang-go as well just to be sure, but did not 
force the golang-go version from buster-backports (my mistake). Now 
with golang-go (>= 2:1.14~) as build dependency, I can build 
gitlab-shell. Thanks a lot for the help.