Bug#841258:

I overlooked this report and created #841385, which tracks the same issue. In short, it doesn't look like golang-1.7-go and golang-1.6-go versions above 1.6.1 provide alternatives integration.

Bug#841258: golang: incorrect upgrade from 1.6 to 1.7 when gccgo is also present

Package: golang Version: 2:1.7~1 Severity: normal I had both gccgo and golang installed. Before the recent upgrade to golang 1.7, /usr/bin/go was the golang compiler. After a recent apt-get upgrade, I noticed compilation failures and found that /usr/bin/go was now gccgo-6, even though golang-1.7