# Notes for the Debconf18 Go Packaging Team BoF

People present (please add yourself)
- aviau, nodens, rajudev , zhsj, felixonmars, arnaud, iwamatsu, yoshino, ah, jmkim

## Topics

* Quick intro to Go packaging
  Please see Team Website: https://go-team.pages.debian.net/
  Salsa Team: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team
  Please ask #debian-golang on irc.debian.org
  Use dh-make-golang
  We don't really have documentation for a workflow that:
  1. track upstream history
  2. get rid of the vendor directory
* Sponsor requests
  Use dh-make-golang to create your package, as it:
  - creates a proper, "standard" skeleton for your package
  - also automate the ITP creation
  Make sure your ITP is well done
  Ask again after a week of not receiving an answer
  Try to ask the same person, keep list in CC
* Vendoring and Golang
  vgo will be in next release, possibly easing the vendoring problem
* Uploading Windows support libs?
* Rules of Team upload
  - We have team maintenance for all golang library. If you want to update package, add yourself to Uploader
* Workflow since last year
  + upstream history, vendor exclude
    - https://go-team.pages.debian.net/workflow-changes.html
    - #812721 (gbp could filter out Files-Excluded: entries when committing to the pristine-tar branch)
    - Possible workarounds ?
       * http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/git-buildpackage/manual-html/gbp.special.html
       * https://dep-team.pages.debian.net/deps/dep14/


## Notes

* vgo will bring version support in the language
* it's very unclear whether shared libraries is in progress