Package: golang-1.16-go
Version: 1.16-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
My apologies if this is a silly question, but how do you use the go
version provided by this package? I checked the following:
- This package does not provide an executable named go1.16 or similar,
as it is shown in the golang docs[1] and as done by similar packages
(clang, gcc, perl, python, etc.).
- This package does not provide an alternative for /usr/bin/go using the
Debian Alternatives System. There are third-party tutorials that
describe how to do so[2] but I assume this is unsupported.
- Setting GOROOT=/usr/lib/go-1.16 does not appear to work:
$ GOROOT=/usr/lib/go-1.16 go version
go version go1.15.9 linux/amd64
Are users expected to set PATH=/usr/lib/go-1.16/bin/:$PATH in addition
to GOROOT=/usr/lib/go-1.16 in order to use go 1.16? Is this mentioned
in the docs? I didn't see any mention of version management in:
- man go
- man go-version
- /usr/share/doc/golang*/{NEWS,README}*
- /usr/share/doc/golang*/html/*.html
- https://wiki.debian.org/golang
- https://go-team.pages.debian.net/
Any guidance and additions to the docs (if I haven't missed something
obvious) would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin
[1]: https://golang.org/doc/manage-install#installing-multiple
[2]: https://iamemhn.link/rom/multiple-golang-debian-way/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (990, 'testing-debug'), (990, 'testing'), (500,
'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500,
'unstable'), (101, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.12.0-rc3 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages golang-1.16-go depends on:
ii golang-1.16-src 1.16-1
ii libc6 2.31-9
Versions of packages golang-1.16-go recommends:
ii g++ 4:10.2.1-1
ii gcc 4:10.2.1-1
ii libc6-dev 2.31-9
ii pkgconf [pkg-config] 1.7.4~git20210206+dcf529b-3
Versions of packages golang-1.16-go suggests:
ii brz [bzr] 3.1.0-8
ii ca-certificates 20210119
ii git 1:2.30.2-1
ii mercurial 5.6.1-2
ii subversion 1.14.1-3
-- no debconf information
