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

[Launchpad Bug Tracker]

This bug was fixed in the package gcc-5 - 5.3.1-12ubuntu1

---------------
gcc-5 (5.3.1-12ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
    - Build from upstream sources.

gcc-5 (5.3.1-12) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update to SVN 20160315 (r234249, 5.3.1) from the gcc-5-branch.
    - Fix PR tree-optimization/69666, PR middle-end/69920, PR c++/67364,
      PR rtl-optimization/69195, PR rtl-optimization/47992,
      PR rtl-optimization/69941, PR target/70131 (rs6000).
  * When configured to link with --as-needed by default, always link the
    sanitizer libraries with --no-as-needed.
  * Fix PR c++/70209, taken from the trunk. LP: #1556217.
  * Stop providing alternative for /usr/bin/go. (Michael Hudson-Doyle).
    LP: #1555856.
  * Disable gnat on powerpcspe. Closes: #816051.
  * Apply proposed patch for PR c++/70218 (illegal access to private field
    succeeds). Closes: #70218.

 -- Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com>  Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:40:59 +0100

** Changed in: gcc-5 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Sponsors Team, which is subscribed to the bug report.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1555856

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

Status in gcc-5 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
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'.

  The motivation for this is to allow us to upload pre-release versions
  of Go without making them the default, to provide a PPA that contains
  newer versions of Go for Xenial more smoothly and, if necessary, to
  allow us to upload newer versions to Go to xenial-updates (like
  #1536882 is doing for trusty) without having to conflict with the
  version of Go in -release.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-5/+bug/1555856/+subscriptions