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| Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote move to per-major version coinstallable packages | #0 |
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To make maintenance of Go easier in the future, we've decided to allow major versions of Go to be co-installed (like gcc-4.9, gcc-5, etc). The plan goes something like this:
1) convert existing golang source package to golang-1.6 source package, removing version independent things like the man pages and management of /usr/bin/go, changed to install to version dependent paths (/usr/lib/go-1.6 etc)
2) create a golang-defaults package that contains this version independent stuff and links /usr/bin/go to the appropriate version
3) update gccgo-5 and gccgo-6 packages to stop providing an alternative for 'go'.