Go 1.6 is now in trusty-proposed

[Katherine Cox-Buday]

Just wanted to say thank you 100x to all involved!

On 03/24/2016 01:03 AM, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As of a few minutes ago, there is now a golang-1.6 package in
> trusty-proposed:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+source/golang-1.6 (thanks for the
> review and copy, Steve).
>
> One difference between this and the package I prepared earlier is that
> it does not install /usr/bin/go but rather /usr/lib/go-1.6/bin/go so
> Makefiles and such will need to be adjusted to invoke that directly or
> put /usr/lib/go-1.6/bin on $PATH or whatever. (This also means it can
> be installed alongside the golang packages that are already in
> trusty).
>
> Cheers,
> mwh
> (Hoping that we can now really properly ignore gccgo-4.9 ppc64el bugs!)
>
> On 17 February 2016 at 07:58, Michael Hudson-Doyle
> <michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
>> I have approval for the idea but also decided to wait for 1.6 and upload
>> that instead. I'm also on leave currently so hopefully this can all happen
>> in early March.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> mwh
>>
>> On 17/02/2016 1:17 am, "John Meinel" <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>>> To start with, thanks for working on this. However, doesn't this also
>>> require changing the CI builds to use your ppa?
>>>
>>> What is the current state of this? I was just looking around and noticed
>>> golang1.5-go isn't in anything specific for Trusty that I can see. I realize
>>> if its going into an SRU it requires a fair amount of negotiation with other
>>> teams, so I'm not  surprised to see it take a while. I just wanted to check
>>> how it was going.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> John
>>> =:->
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Michael Hudson-Doyle
>>> <michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> As part of the plan for getting Go 1.5 into trusty (see here
>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MichaelHudsonDoyle/Go15InTrusty) I've built
>>>> packages (called golang1.5-go rather than golang-go) for trusty in my
>>>> ppa:
>>>>
>>>> https://launchpad.net/~mwhudson/+archive/ubuntu/go15-trusty/+packages
>>>>
>>>> (assuming 3:1.5.3-0ubuntu4 actually builds... I seem to be having a
>>>> "make stupid packaging mistakes" day)
>>>>
>>>> I'll write up a SRU bug to start the process of getting this into
>>>> trusty tomorrow but before it does end up in trusty it would seem like
>>>> a good idea to run the CI tests using juju-core packages built with
>>>> this version of the go compiler. Is that something that's feasible to
>>>> arrange
>>>>
>>>> The only packaging requirement should be to change the build-depends
>>>> to be on golang1.5-go rather than golang-go or gccgo.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> mwh
>>>>
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Katherine