Re: Packaging usql - help to limit the scope of the build?

[Taavi Väänänen <taavi@debian.org>]

On 3/20/25 8:13 PM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> It has in go.mod a massive list of requires, mainly because it has
> support for so many database drivers. I am not interested in packaging
> all of them, and I see that e.g. in Arch the maintainer limited the
> build by passing custom tags to 'go build'
> (https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=usql). This
> does not work in Debian as dh_golang will always try to include and
> build everything before starting 'go build'. I also tried limiting the
> scope with having just a subset of Go project paths in
> DH_GOLANG_BUILDPKG, which does the first 'go install' run with a
> smaller scope, but the next step want's to build everything anyway.
>
> Any suggestions on what to try next?

It is possible to pass build tags in d/rules, for example src:soju has this:

override_dh_auto_build:
	dh_auto_build -O--buildsystem=golang -- -tags="pam"

See 
https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/soju/-/blob/26db296cac685b77b103a94f83c8b6381367145a/debian/rules#L12 
for an example.

Taavi