#1145810 RM: golang-github-gopasspw-pinentry -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused

#1145810#5
Date:
2026-08-27 07:46:00 UTC
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The golang-github-gopasspw-pinentry package ships upstream code from
2021 and appears unmaintained.  It has no reverse dependencies in
Debian.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-gopasspw-pinentry

The upstream project was archived in 2022:

https://github.com/gopasspw/pinentry

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-gopasspw-pinentry
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

golang-github-gopasspw-pinentry |    0.0.2-2 | source
golang-github-gopasspw-pinentry-dev |    0.0.2-2 | all

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