#1145786 RM: golang-github-cznic-bufs -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused

#1145786#5
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2026-08-27 07:09:44 UTC
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The golang-github-cznic-bufs package ships upstream code from 2014 and
appears unmaintained.  It has no reverse dependencies in Debian.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-cznic-bufs

The upstream project was archived in 2018:

https://github.com/cznic/bufs

   github.com/cznic/bufs has moved to modernc.org/bufs (vcs).
   Please update your import paths to modernc.org/bufs.
   This repo is now archived.

Thus following the Go team naming policy, if needed it should be
packaged under a different source package name.

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

golang-github-cznic-bufs | 0.0~git20140818.0.3dcccbd-2 | source
golang-github-cznic-bufs-dev | 0.0~git20140818.0.3dcccbd-2 | 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$