#1145601 RM: golang-github-bifurcation-mint -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused

#1145601#5
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2026-08-25 20:49:11 UTC
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The golang-github-bifurcation-mint package ships upstream code from 2020
and appears unmaintained.  It has no reverse dependencies in Debian.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-bifurcation-mint

The upstream project saw its last commit 5 years ago and is an
implementation of TLS 1.3 which is a security sensitive protocol, and
one now supported by Go natively.

https://github.com/bifurcation/mint

   This project is primarily a learning effort for me to understand the TLS 1.3 protocol

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:~$ ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org dak rm -Rn golang-github-bifurcation-mint
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

golang-github-bifurcation-mint | 0.0~git20200214.93c820e-2 | source
golang-github-bifurcation-mint-dev | 0.0~git20200214.93c820e-2 | all

Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <team+pkg-go@tracker.debian.org>
------------------- Reason -------------------
---------------------------------------------- Checking reverse dependencies... No dependency problem found. jas@frallan:~$