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

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On 21 November 2016 at 16:33, Tianon Gravi <tianon at debian.org> wrote:

> On 20 November 2016 at 13:42, Michael Hudson-Doyle
> <michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
> > 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? :)
>
> I'm happy to review/sponsor if you think it's sane!
>

Check out mwhudson/add-gccgo-go in the golang-defaults repo :)


> To be clear, you're talking about adding a new "gccgo-go" virtual
> binary package to "src:golang-defaults" which satisfies requests for
> "golang-go" via Provides (and thus also provides "/usr/bin/go" via
> alternatives or Conflicts)?


I took out the Provides: bit for now, it seemed a bit icky, but yes.


> Will this simplify the logic behind "golang-any"?
>

Yeah. Actually, more than I had realised! Also pushed to my branch.

Cheers,
mwh
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