Hi!

I was reviewing old unused golang packages in Debian that have no
reverse dependency [1] and came across this package:

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-godebiancontrol-dev

The upstream code is from 2014 and the package has no reverse dependency
in Debian.  According to upstream homepage it says:

   Maintenance mode

   Note that new projects should prefer to use
https://pault.ag/go/debian instead of this package.

Therefor I don't feel we should ship this package in forky/testing.  I'm
opening this bug to trigger testing removal after one week, and open up
for discussion.  I think we could eventually file a ftp-master RM bug
for this, unless there are objections.

What do you think?

/Simon

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-go/2026/08/msg00056.html

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

golang-godebiancontrol-dev | 0.0~git20140119-2.1 | source, all

Maintainer: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>
------------------- Reason -------------------

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

Checking reverse dependencies...
No dependency problem found.

jas@frallan:~/dpkg$

I think we packaged this for Debian Code Search (which is not currently packaged).
I changed DCS to no longer depend on it in favor of pault.ag/go/debian (http://pault.ag/go/debian) :
https://github.com/Debian/dcs/commit/d60b6d42814e49a9471bfd0ff27d3a9940f1c1a7

…so we can drop this package now. Thanks.

reassign 1144566 ftp.debian.org
severity 1144566 normal
affects 1144566 + src:golang-godebiancontrol-dev
retitle 1144566 RM: golang-godebiancontrol-dev -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused
user ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
usertags 1144566 remove
thanks

The golang-godebiancontrol-dev package ships upstream code from 2014.
It has no reverse dependencies in Debian.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-godebiancontrol-dev

The upstream code is from 2014 and the package has no reverse dependency
in Debian.  According to upstream homepage:

https://github.com/stapelberg/godebiancontrol

   Maintenance mode

   Note that new projects should prefer to use
https://pault.ag/go/debian instead of this package.

This removal request is part of a larger batch to remove 100+ unused
golang-*-dev packages from Debian.  I believe the QA cost associated
with keeping all of them is larger than the cost of (hopefully extremely
rare) re-introduction of any accidentally removed package if there is
ever any future need for it.  Meanwhile, 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-godebiancontrol-dev
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

golang-godebiancontrol-dev | 0.0~git20140119-2.1 | source, all

Maintainer: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>

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

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

Checking reverse dependencies...
No dependency problem found.

jas@frallan:~/dpkg$ ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org dak rm -Rn -s=testing golang-godebiancontrol-dev
Will remove the following packages from testing:

golang-godebiancontrol-dev | 0.0~git20140119-2.1 | source, all

Maintainer: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@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-godebiancontrol-dev | 0.0~git20140119-2.1 | source, all

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

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember 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.

Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.

We try to close bugs which have been reported against this package
automatically. But please check all old bugs, if they were closed
correctly or should have been re-assigned to another package.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
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