Re: Problems with initial packaging of sptlrx

[Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org>]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 3:26 AM Martin Dosch <martin@mdosch.de> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to package sptlrx [1] and it's dependencies lyricsapi [2]
> and go-mpris [3].
>
> When building sptlrx it fails like this:
[...]
> Those obviously can't be found in /usr/lib/go-1.23/src/sptlrx/ as those
> are not installed. Do I need to vendor those "self-dependencies" or how
> can this chicken-egg problem be solved?

That's because the go.mod file[1] says its name is "sptlrx", not
"github.com/raitonoberu/sptlrx", which is set in XS-Go-Import-Path in
d/control.

It is bad practice for upstream to use that name. It may work if you
change XS-Go-Import-Path to "sptlrx", but it should be globally unique
in the Debian archive.... Another way is to set DH_GOPKG[2] in d/rules
to override the value XS-Go-Import-Path.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/sptlrx/-/blob/debian/sid/go.mod?ref_type=heads
[2] https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dh-golang/Debian::Debhelper::Buildsystem::golang.3pm.en.html

-- 
Shengjing Zhu