[pkg-go] RFC: Enhancements to dh-golang

[Michael Stapelberg]

I’m not opposed, please feel free to push your changes.

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Martín Ferrari <tincho at tincho.org> wrote:

> Since nobody has voiced strong concerns about this, I will merge this
> change later today or tomorrow and upload.
>
> I wanted to wait for Michael S. to chime in, but I guess he's not
> strongly opposed either :-)
>
>
> On 08/05/16 05:31, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have just pushed a branch (tincho_extensions) to dh-golang,
> > implementing a few changes that I believe are beneficial for golang
> > packaging. If there are no objections, I would like to merge this to
> > master and release 0.17.
> >
> >
> > * Export DH_GOLANG_INSTALL_EXTRA with a list of space-separated paths to
> > copy to the build dir, for tests and other files not automatically
> > installed.
> >
> > This means we can stop using the INSTALL_ALL=1+rm combo, which I think
> > is pretty awkward. Instead, one would do (real example from the
> > prometheus package):
> >
> > export DH_GOLANG_INSTALL_EXTRA := retrieval/discovery/fixtures \
> >     storage/local/fixtures config/testdata promql/testdata \
> >     retrieval/testdata
> >
> >
> > * Add --no-source and --no-binaries options to install target.
> >
> > This avoids the need to remove debian/prometheus/usr/share/gocode, and
> > would go a long way to fix #814690, and I think is generally a good
> > idea, to make it simple to split packages in binary and sources. Again,
> > a real (and tested) example from prometheus:
> >
> > override_dh_auto_install:
> >         dh_auto_install -O--buildsystem=golang -- --no-source
> >
> >
> > * Display a debug message when copying files to the build tree.
> >
> > A minor change, I think that when DH_VERBOSE is set, all the copy and
> > symlink operations during preparation of the source tree should be
> > printed. It looks like this:
> >
> >       Copy retrieval/testdata/server.cer ->
> > build/src/github.com/prometheus/prometheus/retrieval/testdata/server.cer
> >       Copy retrieval/testdata/client.cer ->
> > build/src/github.com/prometheus/prometheus/retrieval/testdata/client.cer
> >       Symlink /usr/share/gocode/src/code.google.com -> build/src/
> code.google.com
> >       Symlink /usr/share/gocode/src/github.com/asaskevich ->
> > build/src/github.com/asaskevich
> >
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
>
>
> --
> Martín Ferrari (Tincho)
>



-- 
Best regards,
Michael
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