On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 02:46:49PM +1300, Daniel Swarbrick wrote: > Updating the 01-Use_go_generate.patch as follows results in a successful > build (without needing to add golang-google-protobuf-dev as a dependency): > > diff --git a/debian/patches/01-Use_go_generate.patch > b/debian/patches/01-Use_go_generate.patch > index cafa5e2..ffa83cf 100644 > --- a/debian/patches/01-Use_go_generate.patch > +++ b/debian/patches/01-Use_go_generate.patch > @@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ Description: Use go generate to avoid depending on special > make rules in > @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ > +package io_prometheus_client > + > -+//go:generate protoc --proto_path=../io/prometheus/client > --go_out=paths=source_relative:. metrics.proto > ++//go:generate protoc --proto_path=../io/prometheus/client > --go_out=paths=source_relative,Mgoogle/protobuf/timestamp.proto=github.com/golang/protobuf/ptypes/timestamp:. > metrics.proto > > However, the generated metrics.pb.go still uses *timestamppb.Timestamp for > the timestamp fields, which will cause undesirable side-effects on > downstream packages. > > I am not aware of any way to influence protoc to use the old timestamp type.
Hmm, this works for me, the generated pb.go uses old timestamp type. I have added above change and built the package, then checked the result.
