Re: Announcement: packaging workflow changes

[Richard Hansen <rhansen@rhansen.org>]

On 3/26/26 08:54, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 7:41 AM Richard Hansen <rhansen@rhansen.org> wrote:
> > > > I plan on adding some warnings to 
> > > > dh-make-golang and/or lintian to make it easier to find packages that 
> > > > don't follow these best practices.
>
> Lintian maintainer here. What changes in particular are you planning?
No concrete plans yet for lintian.  Depending on feedback and technical 
feasibility, I was thinking of some experimental checks (when dh-golang 
is used) along the lines of:

  * The source package only builds one binary package.
  * XS-Go-Import-Path contains only one entry (as a proxy for the one 
Go module per source package best practice).
  * XS-Go-Import-Path matches the module path in go.mod.
  * The name of the source and binary packages matches the naming 
conventions if this is the first release.

I wouldn't want it to be too noisy/obnoxious, so any suggestions would 
be appreciated.

Thanks,
Richard