#1145610 RM: golang-github-rancher-go-rancher-metadata -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused

#1145610#5
Date:
2026-08-25 21:09:31 UTC
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The golang-github-rancher-go-rancher-metadata package ships upstream
code from 2020 and appears unmaintained.  It has no reverse dependencies
in Debian.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-rancher-go-rancher-metadata

The upstream project saw the last commit 6 years ago and has been archived:

https://github.com/rancher-archives/go-rancher-metadata

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-rancher-go-rancher-metadata
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

golang-github-rancher-go-rancher-metadata | 0.0~git20200311.7f4c936-3 | source
golang-github-rancher-go-rancher-metadata-dev | 0.0~git20200311.7f4c936-3 | all

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