[pkg-go] Thoughts on the golang-go package for arm64?

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On 11 September 2015 at 11:00, Potter, Tim (Cloud Services)
<timothy.potter at hpe.com> wrote:
> On 10 Sep 2015, at 7:41 am, Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> arm64 support is new in 1.5, which afaik isn't in debian yet. It can
>> be bootstrapped with gccgo, which is what we did for Ubuntu:
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/wily/+source/golang
>>
>> (based on stuff that Tianon and Paul did).
>
> Hi Michael.  Thanks for the tips.  I discovered yesterday that the alioth version of the golang repo was recently updated to 1.5 but hasn’t been uploaded yet.  I might take a look at how that works as well.

Ah I hadn't seen that. I should see what we can do to squash the
Ubuntu delta down again.

Cheers,
mwh