Source: golang-github-mitchellh-go-homedir Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team Uploaders: Tianon Gravi , Tim Potter , Anthony Fok Section: devel Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-go Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), dh-golang, golang-any Standards-Version: 4.1.4 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-github-mitchellh-go-homedir Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-github-mitchellh-go-homedir.git Homepage: https://github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir XS-Go-Import-Path: github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir Package: golang-github-mitchellh-go-homedir-dev Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Go library for detecting and expanding the user's home directory This is a Go library for detecting the user's home directory without the use of cgo, so the library can be used in cross-compilation environments. . Usage is incredibly simple, just call homedir.Dir() to get the home directory for a user, and homedir.Expand() to expand the ~ in a path to the home directory. . Why not just use os/user? The built-in os/user package requires cgo on Darwin systems. This means that any Go code that uses that package cannot cross compile. But 99% of the time the use for os/user is just to retrieve the home directory, which we can do for the current user without cgo. This library does that, enabling cross-compilation.