Hi Efraim, Just following up on this. Efraim Flashner writes: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 11:52:55PM -0700, Sarah Morgensen via Guix-patches via wrote: >> Hello Guix, >> >> This patch adds go 1.16, but does *not* make it the default for other packages >> which use go (as suggested in [2]). There have been a lot of changes between >> 1.14 and 1.16, and while I have fixed many issues, I am sure continued testing >> will uncover many more. >> >> This patch is based on [0], which adds gccgo-10. > > I've applied the patch, so it should now be available in the main repo :) Should the following related issues be closed now? [0] Build go with gccgo [1] gnu: gccgo: Add version 10. [2] Added Go 1.16.2 [3] Update go? [...] > My only concern about the patches is that I've been burned before about > pushing updates to go packages, where some seem to have insufficient > testing and then they'll build and fail. So in the meantime I've pushed > the go@1.16 patch. Is there something specific to be done to sufficiently test them? I'm not sure what else to do other than manually testing dependents. Thanks, Sarah