On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 7:56 PM Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:58:54AM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > >... > > The package currently FTBFS on i386/experimental but it won't be problem on > > unstable. > > The dep-resolver (aspcud) in experimental chooses gccgo to bootstrap, > > which has a bug https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51850. > > But on unstable the dep-resolver is apt, and will choose old golang-go to > > bootstrap. > >... > > I gave it back on the affected architectures with an extra-depends on > golang-go, which confirmed that the package builds there. > > But relying on resolver behaviour is incredibly fragile, please make > golang-go the only (or at least the first) alternative in the build > dependencies.
In theory gccgo should be able to bootstrap golang-go. And we do use gccgo to build golang-go on ppc64, and haven't met any problem so far. The new affected arch is because of lack of exercise, so nobody is aware of this. Now they are tracked at #1031349. -- Shengjing Zhu
