Ubuntu
golang-race-detector-runtime package

should install to /usr/share, not /usr/lib

Bug #1554401 reported by Michael Hudson-Doyle on 2016-03-08

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	golang-race-detector-runtime (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Currently if you install golang-src and golang-race-detector-runtime and then uninstall them, you get this sort of message:

Removing golang-race-detector-runtime (0.0+svn252922-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: warning: while removing golang-race-detector-runtime, directory '/usr/lib/go/src/runtime/race' not empty so not removed
Removing golang-src (2:1.6-0ubuntu3) ...

This is (I think) because golang-race-detector-runtime installs to /usr/lib/go/src/runtime/race, but golang-src installs to /usr/share/go/src and then there is a symlink from /usr/lib/go/src to /usr/share/go/src. So probably the race detector runtime should install to /usr/share/go/src/runtime/race -- it's a bit wrong to have an arch dependent file in /usr/share, but go will cope.

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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote on 2016-03-08:

I've built and tested this locally.

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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote on 2016-03-08:

golang-race-detector-runtime_0.0+svn252922-0ubuntu1_0.0+svn252922-0ubuntu2.diff Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain)

Now with bonus lintian suppressions.

Mathew Hodson (mhodson) on 2016-03-08

Changed in golang-race-detector-runtime (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote on 2016-05-11:

So I'm looking at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-race-detector-runtime and it looks like golang-race-detector-runtime got moved into golang-defaults for xenial. And is just a metapackage that doesn't install any real files. So I'm marking this invalid.

If I'm wrong, please re-open. (I suppose we could have an issue with wily, but I doubt fixing a removal warning is worth an SRU, especially for a non-LTS.)