Source: golang-github-mitchellh-go-homedir Section: devel Priority: extra Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team Uploaders: Tianon Gravi , Tim Potter Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), dh-golang, golang-go Standards-Version: 3.9.8 Homepage: https://github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-go/packages/golang-github-mitchellh-go-homedir.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-go/packages/golang-github-mitchellh-go-homedir.git 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.