@technoweenie this does seem to work although compiling against master currently fails with the following error:

# github.com/github/git-lfs/test/cmd
src/github.com/github/git-lfs/test/cmd/lfstest-gitserver.go:27: main redeclared in this block
        previous declaration at src/github.com/github/git-lfs/test/cmd/git-credential-lfstest.go:23

Ah, those are for tests only, and don't need to be compiled as part of git lfs. You should be able to build with something like:

$ go build -o bin/git-lfs git-lfs.go

I didn't see where the build happened exactly in the debian files. The override_dh_auto_build only mentions a dh_auto_build task. Does it have something to do with that "golang" build system defined in the % task?

If this is a big deal, I'm pretty sure we can rename ./test to ./_test so that standard go commands ignore the integration tests.

So go build works great. But I think that's because it's only building the *.go files in the root dir. I think the debian stuff is running against every *.go file in the project though:

$ go build ./...
# github.com/github/git-lfs/test/cmd
../../go/src/github.com/github/git-lfs/test/cmd/lfstest-gitserver.go:27: main redeclared in this block
    previous declaration at ../../go/src/github.com/github/git-lfs/test/cmd/git-credential-lfstest.go:23

# rename the test dir
$ git mv test _test
$ go build ./...
# it works!

I'll see what I can do. The dh build system is not the most straightforward... Having said that building the package does run the tests, so I'm not sure whether that affects this.

This is the code for dh-golang, which handles the compilation: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/dh-golang.git/tree/lib/Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/golang.pm

Ah, I wonder if we can add the ./test dir to DH_GOLANG_EXCLUDES? ./vendor would be good too. Running script/bootstrap for builds and script/test for tests would be fine too.

Handled in #383