[pkg-golang-devel] Bug#915905: Wish: support /usr/bin/go via Debian alternatives system?

[ael]

Package: golang-1.11
Version: 1.11.2-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

I had golang-1.10 installed as a dependency of golang-go, and
/usr/bin/go was linked to version 1.10.

When I installed goland-1.11, I expected that link perhaps to be
updated, but more likely added to /etc/alternatives, so that I could
select the appropriate version from there.

As far as I could tell, the only option is/was to rewrite that link if I
wanted 1.11 as default.

Am I missing something?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages golang-1.11 depends on:
ii  golang-1.11-doc  1.11.2-2
ii  golang-1.11-go   1.11.2-2
ii  golang-1.11-src  1.11.2-2

golang-1.11 recommends no packages.

golang-1.11 suggests no packages.

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