NAME

       gophian - Tools to help with Debianizing Go software

SYNOPSIS

       gophian <SUBCOMMAND> [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       The  currently  recommended  dh-make-golang tool is known to be unreliable and relies on various outdated
       and deprecated libraries to function. Gophian seeks to change that by providing a tool that works out  of
       the box, as well as adding on more features and more intelligence to improve the Go packaging experience.
       It  achieves  this  by  replicating  the  functionality  of  "go  get",  avoiding the need to rely on the
       golang.org/x/tools/go/vcs library.

       So you want to package some nifty piece of software you found, and it's written in Go?  Look  no  further
       than   Gophian!   To   start   out,   make   sure   that   it   hasn't   already   been   packaged  using
       https://packages.debian.org or "apt search". Ensure that  there  isn't  already  an  existing  effort  by
       checking for any open Intent to Package (ITP) bugs using wnpp-check(1).

       Next,  you'll  want  to  use  gophian-estimate(1)  to  estimate the amount of work that will be needed to
       package this software for Debian. This subcommand will list any dependencies that are  not  available  as
       packages  in  Debian  yet  in  a tree format. gophian-estimate-graphviz(1) may also be useful to create a
       visual tree with Graphviz, especially for large or complex dependency graphs.

       Then, you can use gophian-make(1) to prepare some initial Debian packaging for  the  software,  including
       setting  up  a  Git  repo,  importing the latest upstream version, and creating some packaging templates,
       inferring and filling in values for  you  when  available.  Refer  to  gophian-make(1)  for  an  in-depth
       explanation of this subcommand's use.

       Refer to the individual subcommand manual pages for more detailed information.

SUBCOMMANDS

       create-salsa-repo - See gophian-create-salsa-repo(1)

       estimate - See gophian-estimate(1)

       estimate-graphviz - See gophian-estimate-graphviz(1)

       license-text - See gophian-license-text(1)

       make - See gophian-make(1)

       search - See gophian-search(1)

       show - See gophian-show(1)

OPTIONS

       --version - Print version and exit.

       --copyright - Print copyright notice and exit.

       --help - Show help message and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

       The   gophian  utility  supports  the  standard  DEBFULLNAME  and  DEBEMAIL  environment  variables.  See
       devscripts(1) for more information about these variables.

AUTHORS

       Maintained by Maytham Alsudany <maytha8thedev@gmail.com>.

REPORTING BUGS

       Please submit bugs to https://codeberg.org/Maytha8/gophian/issues. Alternatively, you may send  an  email
       directly to the author, see AUTHORS.

SEE ALSO

       gophian-create-salsa-repo(1), gophian-estimate(1), gophian-estimate-graphviz(1), gophian-license-text(1),
       gophian-make(1), gophian-search(1), gophian-show(1)

                                                   2025-03-05                                         GOPHIAN(1)