Source: mage Section: golang Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team Uploaders: Simon Josefsson , Rules-Requires-Root: no Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-sequence-golang, golang-any, help2man , Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-go Standards-Version: 4.7.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/mage Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/mage.git Homepage: https://github.com/magefile/mage XS-Go-Import-Path: github.com/magefile/mage Package: mage Section: devel Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, Built-Using: ${misc:Built-Using}, Description: Make/rake-like dev tool using Go (program) Mage is a make-like build tool using Go. You write plain-old go functions, and Mage automatically uses them as Makefile-like runnable targets. . Makefiles are hard to read and hard to write. Mostly because makefiles are essentially fancy bash scripts with significant white space and additional make-related syntax. . Mage lets you have multiple magefiles, name your magefiles whatever you want, and they're easy to customize for multiple operating systems. Mage has no dependencies (aside from go) and runs just fine on all major operating systems, whereas make generally uses bash which is not well supported on Windows. Go is superior to bash for any non-trivial task involving branching, looping, anything that's not just straight line execution of commands. And if your project is written in Go, why introduce another language as idiosyncratic as bash? Why not use the language your contributors are already comfortable with? . This package contains the 'mage' command-line tool. Package: golang-github-magefile-mage-dev Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${misc:Depends}, Description: Make/rake-like dev tool using Go (library) Mage is a make-like build tool using Go. You write plain-old go functions, and Mage automatically uses them as Makefile-like runnable targets. . This package contains the Go development library.