Package: dh-golang Version: 1.34 Severity: normal Hi,
There is at least one case when it would be preferable to have the build dh stage to call ’go build’ instead of ’go install’. This is when building c-shared libraries with -buildmode=c-shared. In this case ‘go install’ builds the shared library object, but gives it a ‘.a’ extension and installs it in a not well defined location. This is discussed in this upstream issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24253 The upstream indication is that "The expectation is that people will use go build -buildmode=c-shared -o foo.so" and that using ‘go install’ "will put the shared library in a relatively unpredictable place". Given these facts, I think dh-golang should support a ‘go build’ mode. One way this could be implemented is via a --build-only flag to be passed to dh_auto_build. If there is consensus on this I can send a patch implementing it. This problem arose while packaging fscrypt, see in particular: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/fscrypt/blob/d15d123eb301d50c0376a10615e472054dd3b88d/debian/rules#L36 Paride
