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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.
 .
 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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