On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 07:24:14PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the golang-1.11 package: > > #915905: Wish: support /usr/bin/go via Debian alternatives system? > > It has been closed by Debian FTP Masters <ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Debian FTP Masters > <ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org> by > replying to this email.
This problem was generic rather than specific to golang-1.11. I probably should have reported against golang-go . I should check whether this problem is still present. ael > Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:03:19 +0000 > From: ael <law_ence....@ntlworld.com> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > Subject: Wish: support /usr/bin/go via Debian alternatives system? > X-Mailer: reportbug 7.5.1 > > Package: golang-1.11 > Version: 1.11.2-2 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > I had golang-1.10 installed as a dependency of golang-go, and > /usr/bin/go was linked to version 1.10. > > When I installed goland-1.11, I expected that link perhaps to be > updated, but more likely added to /etc/alternatives, so that I could > select the appropriate version from there. > > As far as I could tell, the only option is/was to rewrite that link if I > wanted 1.11 as default. > > Am I missing something? > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: buster/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages golang-1.11 depends on: > ii golang-1.11-doc 1.11.2-2 > ii golang-1.11-go 1.11.2-2 > ii golang-1.11-src 1.11.2-2 > > golang-1.11 recommends no packages. > > golang-1.11 suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information
