#1145769 RM: golang-github-facebookgo-atomicfile -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused

#1145769#5
Date:
2026-08-26 21:04:35 UTC
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The golang-github-facebookgo-atomicfile package ships unmaintained
upstream code from 2015.  It has no reverse dependencies in Debian.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-facebookgo-atomicfile

The upstream project was archived in 2018:

https://github.com/facebookarchive/atomicfile

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/golang-qa-find-zombies$ ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org dak rm -Rn golang-github-facebookgo-atomicfile
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

golang-github-facebookgo-atomicfile | 0.0~git20151019.2de1f20-3 | source
golang-github-facebookgo-atomicfile-dev | 0.0~git20151019.2de1f20-3 | all

Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <pkg-go-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
------------------- Reason -------------------
---------------------------------------------- Checking reverse dependencies... No dependency problem found. jas@frallan:~/dpkg/golang-qa-find-zombies$