Yes, true. I was asked to do this by a release team member so hopefully that helps...
** Description changed: 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'. + 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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to golang in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1555856 Title: move to per-Go-major version coinstallable packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-5/+bug/1555856/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
