Source: golang-github-cenkalti-backoff Section: golang Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team Uploaders: Martina Ferrari , FĂ©lix Sipma , Anthony Fok , Rules-Requires-Root: no Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-sequence-golang, golang-any Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-go Standards-Version: 4.6.2 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 Package: golang-github-cenkalti-backoff-dev Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${misc:Depends} 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.