[pkg-go] Recommended packages in golang-go binary

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

I definitely would expect cgo to work by default.

On 7 October 2015 at 04:25, Tianon Gravi <admwiggin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I put them in recommends because without them, trying to use cgo is likely
> to explode, but I'd be open to arguments against how common cgo really is in
> practice. :)
>
> - Tianon
>
> On Oct 5, 2015 21:10, "Potter, Tim (Converged Cloud)"
> <timothy.potter at hpe.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone.  I’m just going some testing with the experimental version of
>> Go that’s
>> currently in the archive (thanks tianon!).  I notice that installing
>> golang-go pulls in a
>> whole bunch of perl modules, as well as gcc and g++.  Is this really
>> necessary in the
>> new era of self-hosted Go?  Can we at least move the current recommended
>> packages
>> to suggested?
>>
>> Here’s the relevant piece, in case you don’t a repo handy:
>>
>> >Package: golang-go
>> >Architecture: amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 ppc64 ppc64el
>> >Depends: golang-src (>= ${source:Version}),
>> >         ${misc:Depends},
>> >         ${perl:Depends},
>> >         ${shlibs:Depends}
>> >Replaces: <stuff>
>> >Recommends: g++, gcc, libc6-dev, pkg-config
>> >Suggests: bzr, ca-certificates, git, golang-golang-x-tools, mercurial,
>> > subversion
>> >Description: Go programming language compiler, linker, compiled stdlib
>>
>>
>> Tim.
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