bazel-contrib / bazel-contrib/rules_go

zoneinfo.zip not found building go code on Debian sid

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Description

Copied from https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/25172, I was asked to file this bug report here.

### Description of the bug:

When trying to build an application that uses go code using bazel 8 on a Debian sid (and bookworm) system I get the following error:

```console
ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/brian/.cache/bazel/_bazel_brian/d79bf7373ff1581a7e2123fde6aa1a40/external/rules_go++go_sdk+sfp-next__host_0/BUILD.bazel", line 116, column 9, in
glob([
Error in glob: glob pattern 'lib/time/zoneinfo.zip' didn't match anything, but allow_empty is set to False (the default value of allow_empty can be set with --incompatible_disallow_empty_glob).
```

This comes from:

https://github.com/bazel-contrib/rules_go/blob/master/go/private/BUILD.sdk.bazel#L115-L121

If I try to search for packages in Debian that provide the `zoneinfo.zip` file I get nothing:

https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=zoneinfo.zip&mode=path&suite=unstable&arch=any

This is using the go package from Debian sid:

```console
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-==============================================
ii golang-1.22 1.22.11-1 all Go programming language compiler - metapackage
```

This seems to be a Debian specific issue. I have had reports that other distributions supply the `zoneinfo.zip` file and as such are fine. But Debian doesn't appear to supply this file with the go compiler.

Debian does not supply Bazel 8 (as far as I can tell anyway), so filing the report here.

### Which category does this issue belong to?

Rules API

### What's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.

Still trying to find a simple Bazel 8 go example to reproduce the issue, but so far without luck.

Basically just build any project that requires Bazel 8 and go on a Debian system should do it, I think.

### Which operating system are you running Bazel on?

Debian Sid

### What is the output of `bazel info release`?

release 8.0.1

### If `bazel info release` returns `development version` or `(@non-git)`, tell us how you built Bazel.

_No response_

### What's the output of `git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse HEAD` ?

```text

```

### If this is a regression, please try to identify the Bazel commit where the bug was introduced with bazelisk --bisect.

_No response_

### Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20969
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/34188

Same error but different because these don't involve bazel, it looks like bazel needs `zoneinfo.zip` and won't fallback to the system timezone database.

### Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

_No response_

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start with go/private/BUILD.sdk.bazel around lines 115-121 and reproduce the failure using Bazel 8.0.1 with Debian Sid's golang-1.22 package. Compare the expected zoneinfo.zip location with the Debian package contents and the referenced Go issues; done means a representative Go build no longer fails on the missing file.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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