Source: golang-github-cenkalti-backoff Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team Uploaders: Martín Ferrari , Félix Sipma , Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12), dh-golang (>= 1.17~), golang-any, golang-golang-x-net-dev Standards-Version: 4.4.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-github-cenkalti-backoff Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-github-cenkalti-backoff.git Homepage: https://github.com/cenkalti/backoff XS-Go-Import-Path: github.com/cenkalti/backoff Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-go Package: golang-github-cenkalti-backoff-dev Architecture: all Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, golang-golang-x-net-dev Description: exponential backoff algorithm in Go Exponential backoff is an algorithm that uses feedback to multiplicatively decrease the rate of some process, in order to gradually find an acceptable rate. The retries exponentially increase and stop increasing when a certain threshold is met.