[pkg-go] fsnotify

[Martín Ferrari]

On 21/04/16 03:58, Anthony Fok wrote:


> I would go with Option 1.  Upstream, i.e., Nathan Youngman, is actually
> trying to move away from gopkg.in, so the recommended import path is
> "github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify" as of February 2016, and a few dependent
> projects have already follow suit, see:

Oh, this is actually a surprise to me. I thought that things like
gopkg.in were the future.. damn.

So it seems that the new vendoring support is the reason, so more pain
for us down the road.. /me not pleased

> So, following @shurcooL's example, I went ahead and updated the
> fsnotify import path for spf13/viper and spf13/hugo too.  I recommend
> that you do the same for prometheus.

Yeah. Anyway, we can provide the gopkg.in symlink for compat.

> That said, since you already have 1.3.0-1 packaged, I think the
> transition to golang-github-fsnotify-fsnotify-dev can happen in
> 1.3.0-2 instead.  It is up to you.  :-)  If/when you do, please update

Oh, no, I stopped myself from uploading yesterday so we could do any
needed transition now. It makes more sense to do it in -1.

> debian/copyright and debian/watch too, and perhaps bump
> Standards-Version to 3.9.8 (though Lintian hasn't caught up yet), and
> perhaps update Vcs-Git to
> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-go/packages/golang-fsnotify.git
> too.  :-)

Will do, although I am not sure if i will have any free time before
monday (weekend away). So feel free to start if you want.


-- 
Martín Ferrari (Tincho)