#1145608 RM: golang-github-opentracing-basictracer-go -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused

Package:
ftp.debian.org
Source:
ftp.debian.org
Submitter:
Simon Josefsson
Date:
2026-08-25 21:07:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1145608#5
Date:
2026-08-25 21:05:33 UTC
From:
To:
The golang-github-opentracing-basictracer-go package ships upstream code
from 2021 and appears unmaintained.  It has no reverse dependencies in
Debian.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-opentracing-basictracer-go

The upstream project was archived in 2023:

https://github.com/opentracing/basictracer-go

   Basic implementation of the OpenTracing API for Go. 🛑 This library is DEPRECATED!

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-opentracing-basictracer-go
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

golang-github-opentracing-basictracer-go |    1.1.0-3 | source
golang-github-opentracing-basictracer-go-dev |    1.1.0-3 | all

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

jas@frallan:~$