Hi.  According to upstream

https://github.com/nebulouslabs/ed25519

it is a 9+ year old fork of a another project:

https://github.com/agl/ed25519

And that project has declared itself unmaintained, and say that people
should be using Go's x/crypto/ed25519 instead.  I believe there is harm
in having golang-github-nebulouslabs-ed25519 in Debian trixie because it
may confuse someone to use it.

The only reverse dependency in Debian is 'sia'.  The Build-Depend is not
necessary for building sia any more, so I have uploaded a new verison to
fix that:

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sia

Removing golang-github-nebulouslabs-ed25519 should be safe after sia is
fixed.  See dak output below.

I'm opening this bug to hopefully trigger removing from testing as a
first step.  We can follow up with removing this from unstable too later
on.

See also related removal request on golang-ed25519-dev:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1089692

If anyone see value in retaining this package, please speak up.

/Simon

jas@coccia:~$ dak rm -Rn -b golang-github-nebulouslabs-ed25519-dev
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

golang-github-nebulouslabs-ed25519-dev | 0.0~git20150728.0.0e573b1-1.1 | all

Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <pkg-go-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
------------------- Reason -------------------

----------------------------------------------

Checking reverse dependencies...
# Broken Build-Depends:
sia: golang-github-nebulouslabs-ed25519-dev

Dependency problem found.

jas@coccia:~$

Dear submitter,

as the package golang-github-nebulouslabs-ed25519 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1093123

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

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