Re: How does the Debian build system avoid go.sum errors?

[Sebastian <seabass-labrax@gmx.com>]

Dear Michael,

> Aren't the relevant checks disabled when GO111MODULE is set to off,
> which dh-golang does?

Thank you very much for your speedy response! With the information in
your email, I was able to find https://golang.org/ref/mod#mod-commands
(which describes the GO111MODULE environment variable). It is something
of a radical change in behaviour for such an innocuously named setting!

> It's always seemed to me that the go.mod approach _should_ be more
> compatible with Debian packaging than the GOPATH approach, but I've
> never scraped together the time to see if this is actually true, never
> mind implementing anything...

I would be very interested to see how this might work; presumably, for
when the Go build tool attempts to download the dependencies, a proxy
server would need to be used in the CI/CD to translate the package paths
into ones pointing to the Debian packages.

Again, many thanks for your help :)

Best wishes,

Sebastian