Golang 1.7... 1.9 is due out soon. Sigh, this is why I end up installing things myself without a package manager.

Debian stable releases have a 2+ year lifespan so even 1.9 would be out of date for most of the distro's life.

Luckily Go is quite easy to install and use from an isolated directory, and the majority of Debian usage here would be as a target OS where the Go compiler version doesn't matter.

Also jessie shipped Go 1.3 but it was updated to Go 1.7 in jessie-backports, so you can probably expect further Go updates in stretch-backports when it's released.

skynode

I've had a bad experience relying on repositories for my golang install.

I'd rather manage golang the golang way.

cure

There are a lot of ways to handle golang for Debian.

Here's a quick command to build a golang-1.8.3 package with fpm (download and extract go1.8.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz first; get fpm from https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm):

#!/bin/bash

DEBIAN_REVISION=1

fpm -s dir -t deb -n golang-go -v 1.8.3-$DEBIAN_REVISION go1.8.3.linux-amd64/bin/go=/usr/local/bin/go go1.8.3.linux-amd64/bin/gofmt=/usr/local/bin/gofmt go1.8.3.linux-amd64/bin/godoc=/usr/local/bin/godoc go1.8.3.linux-amd64/=/usr/local/go