GOPHIAN(1)

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version 0.7.0 · 2 versions
, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 GOPHIAN — like, the manual page, bestie 💖

okay so welcome to the gophian manual page (section 1 of the General Commands Manual, iykyk) 🎀 this is literally your new bestie for Debianizing Go software and I'm so excited to tell you about it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

gophian — tools to help with Debianizing Go software 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gophian <SUBCOMMAND> [OPTIONS]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Gophian is a featureful and intelligent tool to assist developers in packaging Go software for the Debian distribution. no cap, it's giving main character energy 👑

So you found some nifty piece of software and it's written in Go? bestie, look no further than Gophian! 🙌 To start out, make sure it hasn't already been packaged — check https://packages.debian.org or use apt search. Then make sure nobody else is already on it by checking for any open Intent to Package (ITP) bugs with wnpp-check(1). literally do this first, please, I'm begging 🥺

Next, you'll wanna use gophian-estimate(1) to estimate the amount of work needed to package this software for Debian. This subcommand lists any dependencies that aren't 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 — obsessed with a good graph fr fr 📊

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. go read gophian-make(1) for an in-depth explanation of this subcommand's use, it ate 💖

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

🧚 SUBCOMMANDS 🧚

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --version — Print version and exit. short and sweet, iconic ✨
  • --copyright — Print copyright notice and exit. give credit where it's due 🫶
  • --help — Show help message and exit. when in doubt, ask for help bestie 😭

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

The Gophian utility supports the standard DEBFULLNAME and DEBEMAIL environment variables. See devscripts(1) for more information about these variables. set them, your future self will thank you 💜

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Maintained by Maytham Alsudany <maytham@debian.org>. shoutout to the maintainer, absolute legend 🫶

🦋 REPORTING BUGS 🦋

Please submit bugs to https://codeberg.org/Maytha8/gophian/issues. Alternatively, you may send an email directly to the author — see AUTHORS. not me begging you to file the bug instead of just suffering in silence 💀

🔥 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)

this page is from the General Commands Manual, dated 2025-12-25 — so like, go forth and Debianize, bestie 💖 slay ✨🌸🎀
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