[pkg-go] Bug#872807: dh-make-golang: Please find dependencies based on Homepage, too

[Balint Reczey]

Package: dh-make-golang
Version: 0.0~git20170703.0.5eaf198-2
Severity: wishlist

Dead Maintainer,

When looking for packaged build-dependencies the vendor's path
(github.com/onsi/ginkgo) is converted using the default go library
naming scheme
(to golang-github-onsi-ginkgo-dev) which package may not exist in
Debian but may exist under a different name
(golang-github-ginkgo-dev).

In case the build-dependency does not exist in Debian as a package following the
standard go naming scheme dh-make-golang could look for it under a
different name using the Homepage field of the packages:

$ grep-dctrl -FHomepage github.com/onsi/ginkgo -sPackage \
 /var/lib/apt/lists/*Packages | sort | uniq
Package: golang-ginkgo-dev

Cheers,
Balint


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Balint Reczey
Debian & Ubuntu Developer