Re: looking for several golang -dev packages for stretch

You can use dh-make-golang’s¹ search subcommand to find the Debian package(s) containing a Go import path:

% dh-make-golang search github.com/gorilla/sessions

golang-github-gorilla-sessions-dev: github.com/gorilla/sessions

You can check Debian’s list of ITP (Intent To Package) bugs to see if someone is working on packaging a specific Go package.

Note that Debian stretch is stable, i.e. no new packages will be added. We can add packages to stretch-backports upon user request, but for that they need to already be in testing.

① https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 5:12 PM Jeremy C. Reed <reed@fsi.io> wrote:

I am looking for golang -dev packages for stretch for the following. Do
you know of any works in progress or if any of these are available (just
in case I overlooked finding them)?

github.com/go-chi/chi
github.com/go-chi/chi/middleware
github.com/go-chi/docgen

github.com/gorilla/sessions (will copy debian/ metadata from buster
or sid if needed)

github.com/jtblin/go-ldap-client (I began work on this one to create
go-ldap-client and golang-github-jtblin-go-ldap-client-dev)

github.com/rs/cors

github.com/unrolled/render

gopkg.in/bsm/ratelimit.v1 (needed as an import dependency of
gopkg.in/pg.v3. I began packaging golang-gopkg-bsm-ratelimit.v1-dev.)

gopkg.in/go-playground/validator.v9 (will look at v8 as a starting
point if needed)

gopkg.in/pg.v3 (looking at golang-gopkg-pg.v5 as a starting point)

github.com/google/uuid (I packaged for stretch golang-github-google-uuid-dev
based on the sid version)

(I also did packaging for golang-github-farsightsec-go-framestream-dev
and golang-github-dnstap-go-dnstap-dev.)

If you know of any packaging efforts for any of the above for stretch,
please let me know.

Also what is the procedure for requesting new golang -dev packages? And
how to request some in sid to get into stretch-backports?

Thanks,

Jeremy C. Reed
QA/Release Engineering Team Lead
Farsight Security, Inc.