❦ 1 septembre 2013 20:22 CEST, Michael Stapelberg <stapelb...@debian.org> :
>> Since "go get" seems to be able to find the appropriate sources, it
>> would be convenient to provide an automatic "get-orig-source"
>> target. I don't know debhelper enough to know if it is something
>> possible (a custom target).
> Can you take a step back and explain _why_ you want this target please?
> :-)
Because it is part of Debian policy (but optional) and it is a
convenient way to get the origin tarball.
> I am still trying to figure out how to best do packaging of Go software,
> but currently I think that having a git repository where the upstream
> branch is tracking the original upstream repository’s master branch
> seems like the best idea.
>
> Would the get-orig-source target only be necessary for Go software
> living in hg? What would it buy us in the git case? Is it orthogonal to
> pristine-tar? How about uscan?
Many questions. ;-) Yes, we can track upstream master branch, even with
Mercurial (since git provides a good bridge between them). It would be
the first team operating like this, though. But Go is also the first
language to only use HEAD. So... why not.
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