[pkg-go] Bug#840992: RFS: golang-github-hlandau-goutils/0.0~git20160722.0.0cdb66a-1

[Peter Colberg]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for the package "golang-github-hlandau-goutils":

  git clone https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-go/packages/golang-github-hlandau-goutils.git
  cd golang-github-hlandau-goutils && pristine-tar checkout ../golang-github-hlandau-goutils_0.0~git20160722.0.0cdb66a.orig.tar.gz

This package is a prerequisite for uploading a new version of
acmetool, a client for the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority.

For verification, these are the current branch heads:

  git show-ref --heads
  e1642e6948c1afebebcb594aa1055796a8af3ffb refs/heads/master
  9c73792e599f1b6afb485e19727e1f7ccf348f47 refs/heads/pristine-tar
  616fb54cd951b282f7b6b383a7c5f9eaabb165bf refs/heads/upstream

Please note that while the package has to go through the NEW queue,
the code is already contained in the archive as part of the package
golang-github-hlandau-degoutils. The upstream author has recently
split the former into three separate packages (goutils, buildinfo,
dexlogconfig), of which goutils is the first in the dependency chain.

Please see these messages on pkg-go-maintainers for a review, which
discusses in particular the implications on the Debian packaging of
the novel licensing scheme devised by the upstream author.

https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-go-maintainers/Week-of-Mon-20161003/007642.html
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-go-maintainers/Week-of-Mon-20161003/007643.html
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-go-maintainers/Week-of-Mon-20161003/007652.html
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-go-maintainers/Week-of-Mon-20161010/007774.html

Regards,
Peter