How to make a goreleaser script to build a deb file locally?
I have cloned your repo and try that in my local machine. Here is the steps :


Git clone 
executing Dry run (testing everything before doing a release "for real" :

$ goreleaser release --skip-publish
show there is no error

 SIGNING ARTIFACTS
  • pipe skipped              error=artifact signing is disabled
• DOCKER IMAGES
  • pipe skipped              error=docker section is not configured
• PUBLISHING
  • pipe skipped              error=publishing is disabled
• release succeeded after 20.75s


execute goreleaser for release

$ goreleaser release
goreleaser will created dist folder inside project and this folder will consist of distribution packages (deb, rpm).


I have encounter some issues and here is what I do :


error=missing GITHUB_TOKEN, GITLAB_TOKEN and GITEA_TOKEN


create github or gitlab token ( https://github.com/settings/tokens) and put it as environment variabel

export GITHUB_TOKEN=xxxxyyyyyzzzzz


resolve the issue.


pre hook failed: xxxx is not within a known GOPATH/src


as I see in your goreleaser.yaml 

hooks:
pre: dep ensure


you're using dep ensure, checking $GOPATH and make sure $GOPATH pointing to right path of your Go project. 


error=dist is not empty, remove it before running goreleaser or use the --rm-dist flag


dist folder has been created before, you can either manually delete the folder or add flags --rm-dist when executing goreleaser command

$ goreleaser release --skip-publish --rm-dist



error=nfpm failed: rpmbuild not present in $PATH


this error occured as I was running on mac machine so there is no rpmbuild installed, installing rpm, rpmbuild solve the issue

$brew install rpm



error=git is currently in a dirty state, please check in your pipeline what can be changing the following files:
M Gopkg.lock


Goreleaser seems to check file diff, so as because running hook (dep ensure) updating the Gopkg.lock and this changes/updates are not pushed to git. The solution is always pushing the changes to git.


error=git tag v1.0.5 was not made against commit 3ae83eebd904d33cc549117254e857ebea04df90


reading from GoReleaser documentation which is "GoReleaser enforces semantic versioning and will error on non-compliant tags. Your tag should be a valid semantic version. If it is not, GoReleaser will error."

after pushing to git, make sure you have to update the tags, in this case I updates the tags to v1.0.6 (previously v1.0.5).


error=GitHub/GitLab/Gitea Releases: failed to publish artifacts POST http://xxxyyyzzz/releases: 404 Not Found []


make sure release text is there.