[pkg-golang-devel] Bug#842254: Bug#842254: Bug#842254: please allow to use gccgo on architectures providing golang

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

Having thought about it for a while, I think that this approach is OK, and
we can remove the unnecessary Depends: from the -dev binary packages over
time. AIUI I'll need a sponsor to upload this change though as it'll go
through NEW, anyone keen? :)

On 31 October 2016 at 15:35, Michael Hudson-Doyle <
michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:

> I'm attaching a debdiff that implements my idea for this, but it has a
> downside: lots of golang-.*-dev packages depend on golang-go (323 in
> current sid according to my grep-dctrl). They really shouldn't, but this
> hampers swapping out golang-go for gccgo-go in Build-Depends for a test
> sbuild. A workaround would be to have gccgo-go Provides: golang-go, which
> is awful but does seem to work in my testing and seems nicer than 300-odd
> uploads...
>
> Cheers,
> mwh
>
> On 28 October 2016 at 01:38, Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Package: src:golang-defaults
>>
>> With the golang-any package it should be possible to use go architectures
>> providing only gccgo.  As seen in #840190, and I assume in one of the
>> golang-defaults bugs, there was the proposal to handle the go and gofmt
>> links by
>> alternatives.  Apparently now silently removed from the golang-defaults
>> package.
>>  With the alternatives approach it was easy to test build a package on
>> amd64
>> using gccgo, this is not possible anymore.  Please provide an easy way to
>> build
>> a package using gccgo on architectures which default to golang by default.
>>
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