[Bug 1555856] [NEW] move to per-Go-major version coinstallable packages

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

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

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