[pkg-go] Bug#817215: RFS: golang-github-alecthomas-template/0.0~git20151201.0.14fd436 -- text templates with newline elision for Go

[Peter Colberg]

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for your ongoing work of sponsoring the acmetool dependencies!

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 01:53:27PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> Upstream does not have a license and commented the following:
> 
>   "as Go 1.6 now supports whitespace elision [1], I won't be making any
>    further changes to this package and will probably delete it soon." [2]
> 
> Is this package really needed?

The Go 1.6 template syntax for whitespace elision differs from the
syntax of the above fork, so it requires a bump of the major version
of github.com/alecthomas/kingpin. I have submitted a pull request [1]
that switches to the Go 1.6 template package.

[1] https://github.com/alecthomas/kingpin/pull/114

Unless you suggest otherwise, I can package a preliminary version of
gopkg.in/alecthomas/kingpin.v3 and patch acmetool to use the Go 1.6
template syntax.

> Please investigate. Meanwhile I'm tagging this bug as "wontfix" for now.
> 
> Also please note that "BSD-style license" is not necessary the same as 
> "BSD-3-clause". You can't make such assumption because there are too many 
> "BSD style" licenses so techically speaking it can be any of them (and not 
> limited to the list):

Please see the Comment in debian/copyright, which links to the source
of the template package that is licensed under a BSD-3-clause license:

https://golang.org/LICENSE

Peter