New comment by arp242 on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/32016#issuecomment-882278456 Comment: > This matters because the Go binaries would have been built with the old toolchain, so its runtime also needs to support stripped binaries. But I think we do a double bootstrap, so it might not matter after all. Would have to check. Oh right; yeah, that's not an issue: the bootstrap Go is used to build a temporary Go compiler, which is then used to produce the resulting `/bin/go` etc, so Go 1.16.5 is compiled by Go 1.16.5. See https://golang.org/s/go15bootstrap