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

Speaker: Andrew Lee

Track: Standards and Procedures

Type: Short talk (20 minutes)

Room: Aula Magna - FADU

Time: Jul 25 (Sat): 11:30

Duration: 0:20

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 with a “404 Not Found” error that nobody can explain?

After our investigation: We found Debian’s Go infrastructure is trapped Bookworm, Trixie and also Forky in Time Travel to 2011. Can we rescue “Forky” (Debian 14) Go back to the present and to be ready for the future?