#1145632 RM: golang-github-opennota-urlesc -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused

#1145632#5
Date:
2026-08-26 06:00:12 UTC
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The golang-github-opennota-urlesc package ship upstream code from 2017
and appears unmaintained.  It has no reverse dependencies in Debian.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-opennota-urlesc

The upstream project was archived in 2020:

https://github.com/opennota/urlesc
https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/urlesc

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-cznic-lldb
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

golang-github-cznic-lldb |    1.0.1-2 | source
golang-github-cznic-lldb-dev |    1.0.1-2 | all

Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <pkg-go-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
------------------- Reason -------------------
---------------------------------------------- Checking reverse dependencies... No dependency problem found. jas@frallan:~$
#1145632#12
Date:
2026-09-07 08:25:47 UTC
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reassign 1145632 golang-github-opennota-urlesc
severity 1145632 serious
affects 1145632 + src:golang-github-puerkitobio-purell
retitle 1145632 keep golang-github-opennota-urlesc out of forky/testing and consider removal
tags 1145632 sid forky
user ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
usertags 1145632 - remove
user ftp.debian.org@packages.debian.org
User: debian-go@lists.debian.org
usertags: zombie-removal
thanks

For some reason the dak output in this bug report was wrong.

The golang-github-opennota-urlesc package still has a reverse dependency
in unstable.  Because upstream has been archived, I believe it should
still be removed, but the reverse dependency has to be fixed first.

/Simon

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

golang-github-opennota-urlesc | 0.0~git20160726.0.5bd2802-2 | source
golang-github-opennota-urlesc-dev | 0.0~git20160726.0.5bd2802-2 | all

Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <team+pkg-go@tracker.debian.org>
------------------- Reason -------------------
---------------------------------------------- Checking reverse dependencies... # Broken Depends: golang-github-puerkitobio-purell: golang-github-puerkitobio-purell-dev # Broken Build-Depends: golang-github-puerkitobio-purell: golang-github-opennota-urlesc-dev Dependency problem found. jas@frallan:~/dpkg$