Add metapackages: golang-latest, golang-latest-default
Bug #1832851 reported by
Piotr Henryk Dabrowski
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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golang-1.12 (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu provides an outdated golang 1.10 by default.
And it is very inconvenient to use the 'golang-1.12' package, because:
1) User must specify the exact version.
A 'golang-latest' metapackage would be very useful here.
2) 'golang-1.12' does not provide go/gofmt binaries anywhere in $PATH which is very confusing.
Metapackages like 'golang-
To summarize:
One should be able to setup latest Go that works out-of-the-box with one simple command:
$ sudo apt install golang-
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