Package: golang Version: 2:1.1.1-3 User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu saucy ubuntu-patch
Downstream bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1200255 golang binaries crash on some architectures if they are stripped during packaging. Upstream are aware of this, but do not currently support the stripping of binaries. Dave Cheney says: * not supported, as in, we don't support it, and recommend against it when asked * not tested, we don't test stripped binaries as part of the build CI process * is often broken, stripping a go binary will produce anywhere from no, to subtle, to outright execution failure, see above * doesn't do what you want, we have a flag called -g, but the information it stores in the elf sections is a superset of what strip thinks it is removing, in short, strip does not strip out the debug data, we hide it too well. To clarify my previous statements. * I do not disagree with the debian policy, it is there for a good reason * Having said that, it stripping Go binaries doesn't work, and nobody is looking at making it work, so there is that. Thanks for patching the build formula. Debian policy says that binaries "should" be stripped, not "must" be stripped, so I assumed that policy permits this, and that applying the following patch would be the pragmatic thing to do for Ubuntu. I think that doing anything else would be considerable effort. Please consider the same for Debian. diff -Nru golang-1.1.1/debian/rules golang-1.1.1/debian/rules --- golang-1.1.1/debian/rules 2013-07-11 14:13:41.000000000 -0400 +++ golang-1.1.1/debian/rules 2013-07-16 08:19:46.000000000 -0400 @@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ find $(CURDIR)/debian/golang-go/usr/lib/go/pkg -exec touch -r $(CURDIR)/debian/golang-go/usr/lib/go/pkg {} \; override_dh_strip: - dh_strip -X".a" -Xgoinstall -Xgodoc -Xgoyacc -Xbin/cgo -Xebnflint -Xgofix -Xgofmt -Xgovet -Xgotest --dbg-package=$(PACKAGE)-dbg + # strip disabled as golang upstream doesn't support it and it makes go + # crash. See https://launchpad.net/bugs/1200255. override_dh_prep: dh_prep -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
