diff -Nru golang-1.5.1/debian/changelog golang-1.5.1/debian/changelog
--- golang-1.5.1/debian/changelog	2015-10-15 22:41:16.000000000 +1300
+++ golang-1.5.1/debian/changelog	2015-11-13 10:28:30.000000000 +1300
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+golang (2:1.5.1-0ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium
+
+  * Add d/patches/qemu-compat.patch (LP: 1501651)
+
+ -- Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com>  Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:26:17 +1300
+
 golang (2:1.5.1-0ubuntu1.1) wily; urgency=medium
 
   * Recommends: golang-race-detector-runtime on amd64.
diff -Nru golang-1.5.1/debian/patches/qemu-compat.patch golang-1.5.1/debian/patches/qemu-compat.patch
--- golang-1.5.1/debian/patches/qemu-compat.patch	1970-01-01 12:00:00.000000000 +1200
+++ golang-1.5.1/debian/patches/qemu-compat.patch	2015-11-13 10:26:02.000000000 +1300
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Description: handle a quirk of rt_sigaction under user-mode qemu
+Origin: https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/d10675089d74db0408f2432eae3bd89a8e1c2d6a
+Bug: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13024
+Applied-Upstream: commit:d10675089d74db0408f2432eae3bd89a8e1c2d6a
+
+--- a/src/runtime/os1_linux.go
++++ b/src/runtime/os1_linux.go
+@@ -293,7 +293,8 @@
+ 		fn = funcPC(sigtramp)
+ 	}
+ 	sa.sa_handler = fn
+-	if rt_sigaction(uintptr(i), &sa, nil, unsafe.Sizeof(sa.sa_mask)) != 0 {
++	// Qemu rejects rt_sigaction of SIGRTMAX (64).
++	if rt_sigaction(uintptr(i), &sa, nil, unsafe.Sizeof(sa.sa_mask)) != 0 && i != 64 {
+ 		throw("rt_sigaction failure")
+ 	}
+ }
diff -Nru golang-1.5.1/debian/patches/series golang-1.5.1/debian/patches/series
--- golang-1.5.1/debian/patches/series	2015-09-09 21:10:20.000000000 +1200
+++ golang-1.5.1/debian/patches/series	2015-11-13 10:17:49.000000000 +1300
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 armhf-elf-header.patch
+qemu-compat.patch