[pkg-go] Bug#822746: golang: Add golang-any dependency package to install either golang-go or gccgo

Wed Apr 27 21:31:41 UTC 2016

On 27 Apr 2016, at 10:50 PM, Martín Ferrari <tincho at tincho.org> wrote:
> 
> On 27/04/16 05:27, Anthony Fok wrote:
> 
>> As per discussion at https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang/pull/36
>> on GitHub, it was decided that a golang-any package should be created
>> in src:golang instead, so for Go program-type packages that need it,
>> a simple "Build-Depends: golang-any" suffices in providing the default
>> Go compiler for each architecture.
> 
> I was not aware of this discussion, but it seems like a great idea!

Ditto - a really interesting solution to the problem.

Is this something we want to have ported to stretch as well?  I'm also
poking around on a Jessie backport for Go 1.6 and it would be nice to
get these architectural changes here as well.

Tim.

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