Public bug reported: To make maintenance of Go easier in the future, we've decided to allow major versions of Go to be co-installed (like gcc-4.9, gcc-5, etc). The plan goes something like this:
1) convert existing golang source package to golang-1.6 source package, removing version independent things like the man pages and management of /usr/bin/go, changed to install to version dependent paths (/usr/lib/go-1.6 etc) 2) create a golang-defaults package that contains this version independent stuff and links /usr/bin/go to the appropriate version 3) update gccgo-5 and gccgo-6 packages to stop providing an alternative for 'go'. ** Affects: gcc-5 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: gccgo-6 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: golang (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - move to per-major version coinstallable packages + move to per-Go-major version coinstallable packages ** Also affects: gcc-5 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: gccgo-6 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1555856 Title: move to per-Go-major version coinstallable packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-5/+bug/1555856/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs