#1143915 golang-github-hailocab-go-hostpool: don't ship old unmaintained package in forky/testing

#1143915#5
Date:
2026-08-08 13:14:36 UTC
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Hi!  This package is not maintained upstream for 10+ years, so I don't
think we should ship it in forky.  Alas it has reverse dependencies:

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-gocql-gocql

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-gopkg-rethinkdb-rethinkdb-go.v6

I've file upstream bug reports for them to avoid this package:

https://github.com/apache/cassandra-gocql-driver/issues/1962

https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb-go/issues/517

If those issues are resolved, and updated packages uploaded into Debian,
I think we can raise severity on this bug to serious and ultimately
re-assign as a RoTeamM ftp-master bug.

We could even consider uploading patched versions of those two packages
to avoid use of github.com/hailocab/go-hostpool, to speed up the
removal.

/Simon