On 21 November 2016 at 16:33, Tianon Gravi <tia...@debian.org> wrote:
> On 20 November 2016 at 13:42, Michael Hudson-Doyle > <michael.hud...@canonical.com> wrote: > > Having thought about it for a while, I think that this approach is OK, > and > > we can remove the unnecessary Depends: from the -dev binary packages over > > time. AIUI I'll need a sponsor to upload this change though as it'll go > > through NEW, anyone keen? :) > > I'm happy to review/sponsor if you think it's sane! > Check out mwhudson/add-gccgo-go in the golang-defaults repo :) > To be clear, you're talking about adding a new "gccgo-go" virtual > binary package to "src:golang-defaults" which satisfies requests for > "golang-go" via Provides (and thus also provides "/usr/bin/go" via > alternatives or Conflicts)? I took out the Provides: bit for now, it seemed a bit icky, but yes. > Will this simplify the logic behind "golang-any"? > Yeah. Actually, more than I had realised! Also pushed to my branch. Cheers, mwh
