go packaging: binary renaming

A stupid fight with dh_exec

Meaningless snippet from the build log for debian package with dh-golang

I found a problem: out internal go package is named ‘network-utils’ (which is too big and pretensions for the thing it does). I renamed the package to golang-foo-network-utils (binary pacakge name is foo-network-utils), but dh-golang wanted to install /usr/bin/network-utils binary, which I wanted to be /usr/bin/foo-network-utils.

As usual I fought with dh-exec, but failed. I finished by adding this into my debian/rules:

override_dh_auto_install:
    dh_auto_install $@
    find debian/
    mv debian/foo-network-utils/usr/bin/network-utils debian/foo-network-utils/usr/bin/foo-network-utils

It’s ugly, but it works.