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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Architecture: i386 amd64 kfreebsd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 armel armhf
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}
Recommends: golang-weekly-tools
Provides: go-compiler, golang-go
-Description: Go programming language compiler
+Description: Experimental Go programming language compiler
This package provides assembler, compiler and linker for the Go
programming language. This is Google's Go implementation of the
tool chain.
@@ -29,8 +29,12 @@ Description: Go programming language compiler
fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a
dynamically typed, interpreted language.
.
- This package uses the weekly snapshot releases, for more information see:
- http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html
+ Go is an experiment. We hope adventurous users will give it a try and
+ see if they enjoy it. Not every programmer will, but we hope enough
+ will find satisfaction in the approach it offers to justify further
+ development. The language can (and still does) change between weekly
+ releases, check http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html before
+ upgrading this package.
Package: golang-weekly-src
Conflicts: golang-src
@@ -52,8 +56,12 @@ Description: Go programming language compiler (.go source files)
fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a
dynamically typed, interpreted language.
.
- This package uses the weekly snapshot releases, for more information see:
- http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html
+ Go is an experiment. We hope adventurous users will give it a try and
+ see if they enjoy it. Not every programmer will, but we hope enough
+ will find satisfaction in the approach it offers to justify further
+ development. The language can (and still does) change between weekly
+ releases, check http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html before
+ upgrading this package.
Package: golang-weekly-doc
Conflicts: golang-doc
@@ -79,10 +87,12 @@ Description: Documentation for Google's Go programming language
formatted documentation by running godoc --http=:6060 and then
visiting http://localhost:6060/doc/install.html.
.
- TODO: Pregenerate HTML documentation to /usr/share/doc/golang-doc/html
- .
- This package uses the weekly snapshot releases, for more information see:
- http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html
+ Go is an experiment. We hope adventurous users will give it a try and
+ see if they enjoy it. Not every programmer will, but we hope enough
+ will find satisfaction in the approach it offers to justify further
+ development. The language can (and still does) change between weekly
+ releases, check http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html before
+ upgrading this package.
Package: golang-weekly-tools
Conflicts: golang-tools
@@ -109,8 +119,12 @@ Description: Tools for Google's Go programming language
fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a
dynamically typed, interpreted language.
.
- This package uses the weekly snapshot releases, for more information see:
- http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html
+ Go is an experiment. We hope adventurous users will give it a try and
+ see if they enjoy it. Not every programmer will, but we hope enough
+ will find satisfaction in the approach it offers to justify further
+ development. The language can (and still does) change between weekly
+ releases, check http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html before
+ upgrading this package.
Package: golang-weekly-dbg
Conflicts: golang-dbg
@@ -134,7 +148,7 @@ Depends: ${misc:Depends},
golang-weekly-src (>= ${source:Version}),
golang-weekly-tools (>= ${source:Version})
Architecture: all
-Description: Go programming language [meta package]
+Description: Experimental Go programming language [meta package]
This package is a metapackage that, when installed, guarantees
that (almost) full Go development environment is installed.
.
@@ -148,5 +162,9 @@ Description: Go programming language [meta package]
fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a
dynamically typed, interpreted language.
.
- This package uses the weekly snapshot releases, for more information see:
- http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html
+ Go is an experiment. We hope adventurous users will give it a try and
+ see if they enjoy it. Not every programmer will, but we hope enough
+ will find satisfaction in the approach it offers to justify further
+ development. The language can (and still does) change between weekly
+ releases, check http://golang.org/doc/devel/weekly.html before
+ upgrading this package.