[pkg-go] Backport for golang-1.6 and dh-golang-1.12

[Potter, Tim (HPE Linux Support)]

On 5 May 2016, at 11:34 AM, Potter, Tim (HPE Linux Support) <timothy.potter at hpe.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4 May 2016, at 8:17 PM, Martín Ferrari <tincho at tincho.org> wrote
> 
>> Re golang, do they really need 1.6? That seems a bit bleeding edge, no?
> 
> I would have to defer to people more knowledgable about Go for an answer to this.
> All I can say is that a lot of package authors are writing for and testing against
> Go 1.6 so it seems wise to try and track as closely with upstream as is
> reasonable.

I finished a rebuild of Docker and Kubernetes against Jessie and it turns out there
are no problems with building related to Docker 1.5.1.  I guess that means there
is no pressing need to upgrade to Go 1.6, at least for Docker and Kubernetes.


Tim.

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