On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Julian Gilbey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 08:41:18AM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > I’m having some trouble understanding what exactly the bug is that you’re > > reporting here. > > Hello Michael, > > Thanks for the quick response! > > > With regards to -dev dependencies ending up in Build-Depends _and_ > Depends, that > > was fixed in dh-make-golang already, see > > > https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang/commit/1f158eb4ab41ba72a8ba9386864a10a9d9bf2ded > > Ah, thanks, I hadn't noticed that. I'll update my package accordingly. > > > With regards to putting source and binaries into different packages, I > don’t > > understand why dh-golang would be involved at all? dh_install can be > used for > > this, > > see > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/codesearch.git/tree/debian > for > > an example. > > Can you please clarify if anything remains to be done, or whether that > addresses > > the issue? > > I realise that, thanks. It's more that by default, dh-golang includes > the Go source code in all golang-* packages, whether they are program > or library packages, and I'm unclear why this is a sensible thing to > do. I'm perfectly happy to use dh_install or the like to modify its > behaviour for this individual case, but it seems to me that there is > an argument for modifying the dh-make-golang + dh-golang system to > offer three possibilities, something like the following: > > (1) -type=library Behaviour as at present: creates a -dev package > including the Go source code and doesn't compile anything. > > (2) -type=program Behaviour different from present: creates a binary > package only, with the compiled Go program, excluding all Go source > code. > > (3) -type=combined (or some other appropriate name) Compiles a Go > program to produce a binary package containing only the compiled Go > program; also creates a corresponding -dev package providing the Go > source code. > > What are your thoughts on this? > That sounds reasonable to me. Can you send a pull request on https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang please, or at least file an issue there? > > Best wishes, > > Julian > -- Best regards, Michael
