On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 09:48:50PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> In my patchset, there are 2 kinds of fixes:
> 
> - Disabling tests because Go 1.11 test policies are stricter and some lax code
>   from before does not pass anymore.
>   For this issue, upstream should fix their packages.  As far as we are
>   concerned, disabling tests is enough.  The go-build-system has nothing to do
>   with this issue.

Okay, I think you should go ahead and push these changes now, assuming
the packages still build afterwards.

> - Manual forwarding of compilation flags (e.g. "-tags").  This is an issue with
>   our go-build-system which cannot re-use existing "pkg" objects on Go 1.11.
>   Upstream code is fine.
> 
> So yes, fixing go-build-system is related to packages not building with
> Go 1.11 :p

Okay, I see. I won't be working on this soon, if ever. I don't
understand enough about how Go >= 1.10 builds software in order to do
the work efficiently. Hopefully there is a volunteer :)