[pkg-golang-devel] Bug#853746: golang-1.7: Golang 1.7 available in jessie backports but not installable on armel due to missing golang-1.7-go

[Sergio]

Source: golang-1.7
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

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Golang 1.7 has recently been made available in jessie backports. However, it is not installable in armel (and possibly other
architectures) because the golang-1.7-go package is missing for it. In turn this is due to a failure in building golang-1.7-go
(see https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=golang-1.7&suite=jessie-backports#problem-1)

The issue is that, as a consequence of the above, if one had previously installed golang 1.6 from the backports, then spurious
information about the availability of package upgrades is constantly showns.

For many days now, the system has been indicating that 4 packages are upgradable (the 4 golang packages), when in fact, no one
can be successfully updated. This makes the information that the system automatically provides on updates at best useless and
at worst confusing and misguiding unnecessary actions.

I would suggest removing golang 1.7 from jessie-backports for those architectures where it cannot be installed anyway because
some part of it cannot be built (at least until it can be built).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-0.bpo.2-marvell
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)