[pkg-go] go binary-only package

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On 21 July 2016 at 07:39, Erick Cardona <erick0zcr.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim and thanks!
>
> I'm just using a random upstream repository(github) and trying to package it
> using the Debian tools. Actually dh-make-golang does all the magic and now
> I'm able to create the .deb with the binaries and sources in it. I don't
> know why yesterday it wasn't including the binaries in the .deb package, but
> now is working like a charm. Today I was messing it with cowbuilder and
> pbuilder stuff and it works. I'll take a closer look on how those tools work
> under the hood.
>
> Question: If some projects have their dependencies in the vendor dir, why
> dh-make-golang skip those? Does Debian packages never ship the deps in that
> way?

It is against debian policy:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles

Cheers,
mwh

> Anyway, thanks for the interest.
>
> Regards,
> Erick Cardona
>
> 2016-07-19 16:24 GMT-05:00 Potter, Tim (HPE Linux Support)
> <timothy.potter at hpe.com>:
>>
>> On 20 Jul 2016, at 1:51 AM, Erick Cardona <erick0zcr.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm currently packaging a go project for educational purposes. Now I'm
>> > able to build a package using the tools dh-make-golang and gbp(Awesome
>> > tools!!). I was able to build a binary-only package but manually. I was
>> > wondering if using gbp I could obtain a .deb which contains the binaries of
>> > the package? Like the docker-engine.deb which contains the binaries of
>> > docker.
>> >
>> > PS: I'm really new to packaging, but looking further to join the Debian
>> > community.
>>
>> Hi Erick.  The best way to make a new Debian package from a Go library is
>> with dh-make-golang
>> and gbp so you're on the right track there.
>>
>> Can you push what you've done so far to a git repo somewhere for review?
>> I'm happy to
>> take a look and give feedback.
>>
>>
>> Tim.
>
>
>
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