Packaging helmsman: how to properly set the version using ldflags (or or those obsolete)?

[kastl-ars]

Dear maintainers,

I found helmsman and found it very interesting, so I started packaging it for openSUSE.

One thing I stumbled upon: The Makefile has ldflags that set the version to "${TAG}-${DATE}". However I noticed there are two different capitalizations:

https://github.com/Praqma/helmsman/blob/master/Makefile#L64

vs.

https://github.com/Praqma/helmsman/blob/master/Makefile#L86

main.version vs. main.Version (with a capital V).

However, no matter which one I use the version output is only containing the tag.

$ ./helmsman version

 _          _ 
| |        | | 
| |__   ___| |_ __ ___  ___ _ __ ___   __ _ _ __
| '_ \ / _ \ | '_ ` _ \/ __| '_ ` _ \ / _` | '_ \ 
| | | |  __/ | | | | | \__ \ | | | | | (_| | | | | 
|_| |_|\___|_|_| |_| |_|___/_| |_| |_|\__,_|_| |_| version: v3.17.1
A Helm-Charts-as-Code tool.

2025-02-22 11:12:12 INFO: No desired state files provided.

I checked the release tarball and this behaviour is consistent.

So, is this some peculiarity of go that it only shows parts of the main.version variable? Or is the ldflags call just broken in the Makefile?

I found that the version is already set in two places, so it might just be that the ldflags are not needed, at all?

• https://github.com/Praqma/helmsman/blob/master/internal/app/main.go#L11
• https://github.com/Praqma/helmsman/blob/master/.version

Thanks in advance!

Kind Regards,
Johannes