[pkg-go] Changing dh-golang to work with Go shared libraries

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On 3 August 2015 at 18:55, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at debian.org> wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply.
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Michael Hudson-Doyle
> <michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On 19 June 2015 at 08:24, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at debian.org> wrote:
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> The overall approach looks good to me,
>>
>> Very glad to hear that :-)
>>
>>> but the patches still contain a fair
>>> number of TODOs — I assume you’ll address them before sending them for a
>>> merge?
>>
>> Oh yes, sorry, I actually meant to fix some of those before sending
>> the patches (the ones asking if changes are still necessary) but
>> clearly forgot. I'll certainly get those cleaned up before sending a
>> patch in for merging.
>>
>> For this one:
>>
>> +    # XXX Could do some consistency checks here e.g
>> +    # 1) make sure there is a devpkg if there is a libpkg
>> +    # 2) make sure devpkg depends on libpkg
>> +    # 3) make sure libpkg has "Provides: ${golang:Provides}"
>> +    # Maybe this is more in the realm of lintian.
>>
>> I'd welcome your input -- do you think it makes sense to check those
>> things here?  If so, I'll add the checks, if not, I'll just delete the
>> comment :-)
>
> I think having this in lintian makes more sense, because then the
> mechanism to override a false-positive is crystal clear to people, and
> we don’t need to invent our own mechanism.

Makes sense. Another project to try to figure out :-)

Cheers,
mwh