Rescue Forky: We have Go Back to 2011. Building Go Like It's 2011 is Broken.

Speaker: Andrew Lee (李健秋)

Type: Talk

Room: Seminarroom

Time: May 09 (Sat): 11:00

Duration: 0:30

Hidden Injections, 404 Errors, and the Path to Modern Builds.

When a modern Go package is added to Debian, it should just work. But what if a perfectly compiled binary fails at runtime with a “404 Not Found” error that nobody can explain?

After our investigation: We found Debian’s Go infrastructure is trapped Bookworm and Trixie in a time machine in 2011. How can we rescue “Forky” (Debian 14) from the past and bring our Go builds back to the present and ready for the future?

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