[pkg-go] Proposal: extending package names to always be fully specified

[Michael Stapelberg]

It’s updated now. I’ll still look into doing the mass-rename, but for new
packages, we can already use the new policy (as I’ve been doing for the
last couple of days).

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Michael Hudson-Doyle <
michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:

> This all makes sense to me, at least (less thinking == better).  Will
> you update http://pkg-go.alioth.debian.org/packaging.html soon?
>
> Cheers,
> mwh
>
> On 10 June 2015 at 21:40, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > this was discussed a while ago in the #debian-golang IRC channel:
> >
> > Since Debian Go packages are not used by actual Go developers, but just
> for
> > specifying dependencies for Debian packages, it might be a better choice
> to
> > change our naming schema (see
> > http://pkg-go.alioth.debian.org/packaging.html) for library packages to
> > always use the full path, i.e. use
> > “golang-github.com-stapelberg-godebiancontrol” instead of
> > “golang-godebiancontrol”.
> >
> > A point that makes this change attractive is not only that humans have an
> > easier time finding the Go libraries they are looking for, but also that
> it
> > significantly simplifies automated tools such as dh-make-golang (which
> I’m
> > currently working on).
> >
> > If I don’t hear any objections until this Saturday, I’ll try to come up
> with
> > a script which does the transition.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Michael
> >
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-- 
Best regards,
Michael
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