zoneinfo.zip not found building go code on Debian sid

[brianmay]

Copied from bazelbuild/bazel#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:

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 <toplevel>
		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:

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 ?

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?

golang/go#20969
golang/go#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