Bug#823092: ITP: golang-github-dchest-safefile -- Implements safefile implements safe "atomic" saving of files for Go
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
* Package name : golang-github-dchest-safefile
Version : 0.0~git20151022.0.855e8d9-1
Upstream Author : Dmitry Chestnykh
* URL : https://github.com/dchest/safefile
* License : BSD-2-clause
Programming Lang: Go
Description : Implements safe "atomic" saving of files for Go
Go package safefile implements safe "atomic" saving of files.
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Instead of truncating and overwriting the destination file, it creates
a temporary file in the same directory, writes to it, and then renames
the temporary file to the original name when calling Commit.
Reason for packaging: Needed for building "govendor", see #823090
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