Bug#862422: [pkg-golang-devel] Bug#862422: gccgo-go: wrap gccgo-7 for full Go 1.8 runtime

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Michael Hudson-Doyle  writes:

> Makes sense to me, I'd be happy to upload that change to experimental.

Great, thanks!

> What's the timeframe for gccgo-7 getting into unstable? Just waiting for
> buster development to open?

Presumably; I'm not aware of another reason to hold off.  (An official
7.1 release recently came out, and there aren't experimental versions of
binutils or glibc that could need to accompany GCC 7 to unstable.)

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Bug#862422: [pkg-golang-devel] Bug#862422: gccgo-go: wrap gccgo-7 for full Go 1.8 runtime

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

Makes sense to me, I'd be happy to upload that change to experimental.
What's the timeframe for gccgo-7 getting into unstable? Just waiting for
buster development to open?

On 13 May 2017 at 03:13, Aaron M. Ucko  wrote:

> Package: gccgo-go
> Version: 2:1.8~1
> Severity: important
>
> Could you please switch gccgo-go's 1.8 series to wrap gccgo-7 rather than
> gccgo-6, so code that needs Go 1.8.x user packages but not necessarily
> Google's compiler can simply Build-Depend: gccgo-any (>= 2:1.8~)?
>
> This change will be helpful for packaging newer upstream releases of
> ncbi-entrez-direct, which have started using sort.Slice (and which will
> want to go to experimental for now anyway).
>
> Thanks!
>
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