This project was abandoned upstream 10+ years ago with this message:

https://github.com/bmizerany/assert
"NO LONGER MAINTAINED - Just use Go's testing package."

We should not ship it in forky or testing.

Alas it has dependencies in Debian:

golang-github-bitly-go-simplejson
golang-github-bmizerany-pat
golang-github-hailocab-go-hostpool
golang-github-fluent-fluent-logger-golang
hub

I'm working on uploading fixed versions of those packages, but there is
no reason to not start the testing removal process of
golang-github-bmizerany-assert now.

/Simon

reassign 1143916 ftp.debian.org
severity 1143916 normal
affects 1143916 + src:golang-github-bmizerany-assert
retitle 1143916 RM: golang-github-bmizerany-assert -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused
user ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
usertags 1143916 remove
thanks

After fixing the reverse dependencies (see earlier e-mails in this bug),
we are ready to remove the golang-github-bmizerany-assert package.  It
has no remaining reverse dependencies in Debian.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-bmizerany-assert

The upstream project was declared unmaintained ~10 years ago:

https://github.com/bmizerany/assert

"NO LONGER MAINTAINED - Just use Go's testing package."

I don't think it is useful to keep this package in Debian.

/Simon

jas@frallan:~/dpkg$ ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org dak rm -Rn golang-github-bmizerany-assert
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

golang-github-bmizerany-assert | 0.0~git20160611.b7ed37b-1 | source
golang-github-bmizerany-assert-dev | 0.0~git20160611.b7ed37b-1 | all

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

------------------- Reason -------------------

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

Checking reverse dependencies...
No dependency problem found.

jas@frallan:~/dpkg$

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

golang-github-bmizerany-assert | 0.0~git20160611.b7ed37b-1 | source
golang-github-bmizerany-assert-dev | 0.0~git20160611.b7ed37b-1 | all

------------------- Reason -------------------
ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused
----------------------------------------------

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
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