Packaging Go application for Debian

Question

How can I put my Go binary into a Debian package? Since Go is statically linked, I just have a single executable--I don\'t need a lot of complicated project metadata information

Answer 1

Building deb or rpm packages from Go Applications is also very easy with fpm.

Grab it from rubygems:

gem install fpm

After building you binary, e.g. foobar, you can package it like this:

fpm -s dir -t deb -n foobar -v 0.0.1 foobar=/usr/bin/

fpm supports all sorts of advanced packaging options.