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

Michael Hudson-Doyle michael.hudson+lp at canonical.com
Wed Mar 23 00:48:10 UTC 2016


** Changed in: golang (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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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:
  Fix Released
Status in golang package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

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.

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