On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Iain Lane <i...@orangesquash.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 01:15:01PM -0000, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
>> You have been subscribed to a public bug by Sergio Schvezov (sergiusens):
>>
>> Dear Release Team,
>>
>> I would like to sync golang-go-xdg from debian unstable.
>>
>> This package is not installed on an end users system but used for
>> package building of other golang originated binaries used for Ubuntu
>> Touch (goget-ubuntu-touch and ubuntu push notifications benefit from
>> these).
>
> It might not be technically installed, but I think the difference is
> minimal given that we're doing static linking here.

That is correct; this package installed on a system is usually
useless; a developer is supposed to use the standard go development
practices (go get and a defined GOPATH); this is only useful for
package building of other components that would depend on it.

> Anyway, I'll ACK this FFe. In future more details would be appreciated

Sorry I seem to have missed some bits it seems.

>
>   - What is the package?

It provides go bindings to the xdg paths defined by freedesktop to
make it easy to use them.

>   - Why is it needed now (what functionality requires it)?

Ubuntu push notifications uses it (and ubuntu-emulator would migrate
to using it).

>
> Thanks for maintaining in Debian btw.

I'm am glad to read this.

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Title:
  [FFe] Sync golang-go-xdg 0~bzr20140219-1 (universe) from Debian
  unstable (main)

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