Re: Help to build golang-github-boltdb-bolt on riscv64

[Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumi95@protonmail.com>]

Hi,

Bringing up again a riscv and golang issue with a related package:

golang-github-hashicorp-raft-boltdb is a dependency of consul and nomad, so all of these packages FTBFS with riscv. The golang-github-hashicorp-raft-boltdb upstream was edited to depend on golang-github-coreos-bbolt instead of golang-github-boltdb-bolt (in the v2 folder), but the implementation was done in a way where golang-github-boltdb-bolt is still imported. golang-github-boltdb-bolt is incompatible with riscv, causing a build failure.

>> Please just ask the relevant packages' upstream to switch to bbolt.
>> There's is not value to fix bolt. Fixing bolt just means doing what
>> bbolt has done again.

I wrote a github issue [1] and a debian bug [2] for golang-github-hashicorp-raft-boltdb at the beginning of this year that have not been resolved. Should we try to patch golang-github-hashicorp-raft-boltdb to remove any dependencies on golang-github-boltdb-bolt? This would allow us to build consul, nomad, and any other packages that depend on golang-github-hashicorp-raft-boltdb with riscv.

[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/raft-boltdb/issues/27
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004303

Ileana Dumitrescu