Source: golang-github-hashicorp-errwrap
Section: devel
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <pkg-go-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: Tianon Gravi <tianon@debian.org>, Tim Potter <tpot@hpe.com>,
           Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),
               dh-golang,
               golang-any
Standards-Version: 4.0.0
Homepage: https://github.com/hashicorp/errwrap
Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-go/packages/golang-github-hashicorp-errwrap.git
Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-go/packages/golang-github-hashicorp-errwrap.git
XS-Go-Import-Path: github.com/hashicorp/errwrap
Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-go

Package: golang-github-hashicorp-errwrap-dev
Architecture: all
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
         ${misc:Depends}
Description: Errwrap is a Go (golang) library for wrapping and querying errors
 errwrap is a package for Go that formalizes the pattern of wrapping errors and
 checking if an error contains another error.
 .
 There is a common pattern in Go of taking a returned error value and then
 wrapping it (such as with fmt.Errorf) before returning it. The problem with
 this pattern is that you completely lose the original error structure.
 .
 Arguably the correct approach is that you should make a custom structure
 implementing the error interface, and have the original error as a field on
 that structure, such as this example. This is a good approach, but you have to
 know the entire chain of possible rewrapping that happens, when you might just
 care about one.
 .
 errwrap formalizes this pattern (it doesn't matter what approach you use above)
 by giving a single interface for wrapping errors, checking if a specific error
 is wrapped, and extracting that error.
 .
 This package contains the source.
