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by mrmondo 4111 days ago
I've used FPM for small things that aren't too complex but I certainly wouldn't trust the Ubuntu packaging team.
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I think I have an idea where you're comming from, but that's still a little too harsh. In case of programs written in go, it's not really all that complicated I think: go pretty much "solves" (ignores by forcing vendoring in) source/build dependencies -- and the resulting build is only a binary and resources. So it's a pretty good fit for stuffing in a cpio/deb-file -- I think what's mostly lacking on the Debian side is motivation (some package or other that is written in go).

Actually, come to think of it... might be time to have a look at apt-get source docker.io...