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

[Sebastien Bacher]

those changes are not trivial, they proably need a ffe
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess

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Title:
  move to per-Go-major version coinstallable packages

Status in gcc-5 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in gccgo-6 package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in golang package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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'.

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