<div dir="ltr">The alternative will be removed from the next upload of gccgo, or at least that's what doko told me.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842254" target="_blank">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-<wbr>bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842254</a> is about fixing this properly.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I don't really want to fix this the way you are suggesting because m<span style="font-size:12.8px">ost packages that are </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">implemented in Go just build-depend on golang-any and invoke /usr/bin/go </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">and it seems important that the version of Go that gets you is controlled by </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">the packages' build-depends (and the state of the archive at the time) not whatever the admin of the system has </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">done with update-</span><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">alternatives (this is why the alternatives got removed).</span></div><div><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">Cheers,</span></div><div><span class="gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">mwh</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 November 2016 at 10:43, Dustin Howett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dustin@howett.net" target="_blank">dustin@howett.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This remains an issue, and it happens every time even a maintenance<br>
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