Hi Balachandran,
I have merged your MR into debian/experimental branch and tested it
locally. I found some issues:
1. Package template created as `golang-github-cenkalti-backoff-v5`,
but imported version is latest version /v7.
$ dh-make-golang make github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v5
2026/09/11 11:56:24 Starting "dh-make-golang v0.8.3 linux/amd64"
2026/09/11 11:56:25 Continuing with repository root
"github.com/cenkalti/backoff" instead of specified import path
"github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v5" (repositories are the unit of
packaging in Debian)
2026/09/11 11:56:25 Using "github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v5" to create
the debian package name
2026/09/11 11:56:25 Building package for a Go module with a major version
2026/09/11 11:56:25 Building package for a Go module with a major version
2026/09/11 11:56:25 Downloading "github.com/cenkalti/backoff/..."
2026/09/11 11:56:26 Determining upstream version number
2026/09/11 11:56:26 Found latest tag "v7.0.0"
2026/09/11 11:56:26 Latest tag "v7.0.0" matches master
2026/09/11 11:56:26 Package version is "7.0.0"
2026/09/11 11:56:26 findMains: Running /usr/bin/go list -e -f
{{.ImportPath}} {{.Name}} github.com/cenkalti/backoff/... in
/tmp/dh-make-golang1471055966/src/github.com/cenkalti/backoff
2026/09/11 11:56:26 Determining dependencies
2026/09/11 11:56:26 Downloading
https://github.com/cenkalti/backoff/archive/v7.0.0.tar.gz
2026/09/11 11:56:27 WARNING: A package called
"golang-github-cenkalti-backoff-dev" is already in Debian! See
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-cenkalti-backoff
2026/09/11 11:56:27 Moving tempfile to
"golang-github-cenkalti-backoff-v5_7.0.0.orig.tar.gz"
2026/09/11 11:56:27 Adding remote "origin" with URL
"[email protected]:go-team/packages/golang-github-cenkalti-backoff-v5.git"
2. debian/watch file doesn't have pined version on v5:
$ cat debian/watch
version=4
opts="filenamemangle=s%(?:.*?)?v?(\d[\d.]*)\.tar\.gz%@PACKAGE@-$1.tar.gz%,\
uversionmangle=s/(\d)[_\.\-\+]?(RC|rc|pre|dev|beta|alpha)[.]?(\d*)$/$1~$2$3/"
\
https://github.com/cenkalti/backoff/tags .*/v?(\d\S*)\.tar\.gz debian
Due to above reason, I haven't uploaded the package. You may work on
top of my commits in debian/experimental branch for following fixes.
Best regards,
--
-Andrew
