[pkg-go] Bug#871447: Bug#870643: golang-github-pierrec-lz4-dev: please split off test data

Aaron M. Ucko ucko at debian.org
Tue Aug 8 15:21:04 UTC 2017


Paul Tagliamonte <paultag at debian.org> writes:

> As with the other bug, I don't see the point in this. This package is
> used as a Build-Dependency, and not used by either end-users, or
> developers working on Go source code on Debian, so splitting this off
> will add space in the archive, and add a lot of complexity.

Hi, Paul.

Thanks for clarifying; I'd thought there was more of a use case for
having these packages installed locally.  Does everyone just use private
GitHub checkouts?

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