[pkg-go] Bug#888985: RFS: irtt/0.9-1 [ITP] (#888985)

[Pete Heist]

> On Feb 7, 2018, at 10:36 PM, Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Ok, I’m getting there, bear with me. :) In my case, would I not want to produce both a binary package and eventually a source package?
> 
> Be careful not to confuse the Debian concept of source packages (i.e. .dsc files) and binary packages (i.e. .deb files) with a Debian binary package containing binary files (e.g. a .deb with files in /usr/bin) and a Debian binary package containing Go source code (e.g. a .deb with files in /usr/share/gocode).
> 
> You always operate on 1 Debian source package (in your case, named irtt) generating at least 1 Debian binary package (in your case, also named irtt). We discussed generating 2 Debian binary packages (irtt and golang-github-peteheist-irtt-dev).

Ok, that’s clear to me now. The solution of one binary package for now sounds best. I can have the same source package generate the second binary (with source) package later. I just need to get up to Debian sid and take care of any other lintian warnings also. Thanks!

Pete

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