Package for Debian

[patrickod]

It'd be very nice to be able to install the client and server separately via Debian packages for automated provisioning of new cashier instances.

[lyda]

I haven't used this, but it's on my list of things to look at:

https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang

[patrickod]

I've had a brief look through the documentation and this does seem to be the promising path. The only thing that I'm yet to figure out is how to deal with producing two output packages with the server and client binaries respectively. It appears that the scripts have a presumption of one to one repo => binary currently.

[patrickod]

I made a very brief initial attempt at this last night. Unfortunately dh-make-golang currently doesn't deal well with vendored dependencies. It's also very likely that we'd have to package some of the sub-dependencies ourselves since Debian's packaging policy requires that we un-vendor the dependencies that we're using and install each of them as discrete apt dependencies.

I'll follow up with some Debian folks to see how viable this path is. I'm pretty keen on getting this into Debian myself.

[nsheridan]

It's also very likely that we'd have to package some of the sub-dependencies ourselves

I'm not sure who "we" refers to here, and I'm not a fan of Debian's packaging policy getting forced on this project. Unless there's a more tangible benefit than "cashier gets packaged for Debian" here then I'm totally willing to live without this.

[patrickod]

aye it's looking an uphill battle. @nsheridan if I do get it packaged I'll version it outside of this repo to prevent any confusion. "we" in this case might end up being me depending on difficulty.