Re: Interest in packaging for Debian

[Nilesh Patra <nilesh@debian.org>]

On 3/4/23 20:45, Clément Hermann wrote:
> Le 04/03/2023 à 11:06, Rock Storm a écrit :
> > [...]
> > And yes, in terms of packaging, if you are lucky the `dh-make-golang`
> > tool will do a lot of packaging work for you. Keep in mind it is not
> > 100% perfect and the package might still need some tweaking in
> > addition to filling in the gaps.
>
> Thanks for considering helping out in Debian!
>
> As Rock said before, that's pretty much it in simple cases for Go packages. What can be tricky is hunting the vendored modules which aren't allowed in Debian > (so you need to package them, or find out if they're not already packaged under another name, etc). But that's more a Go ecosystem thing than a Debian one ;)

While it always makes sense to de-vendor and package and package the dependency, there is no rule/policy that dis-allows vendoring modules as long
as the copyrights are correct. Infact a bunch of packages actually do vendor modules.
 
> [...]
> (I can't accept you now, sorry, I'd need my token which I don't have with me atm… Hopefyully someone else will ;) ).

Mark, I have added you to the team. Welcome!

Thanks,
Nilesh