I think we packaged this for Debian Code Search (which is not currently packaged). I changed DCS to no longer depend on it in favor of pault.ag/go/debian (http://pault.ag/go/debian) : https://github.com/Debian/dcs/commit/d60b6d42814e49a9471bfd0ff27d3a9940f1c1a7
…so we can drop this package now. Thanks. On Sun, Aug 16, 2026 at 8:42 PM, Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: golang-godebiancontrol-dev > Severity: serious > X-Debbugs-CC: Michael Stapelberg <[email protected]> > Hi! > I was reviewing old unused golang packages in Debian that have no > reverse dependency [1] and came across this package: > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-godebiancontrol-dev > The upstream code is from 2014 and the package has no reverse dependency > in Debian. According to upstream homepage it says: > Maintenance mode > Note that new projects should prefer to use > https://pault.ag/go/debian instead of this package. > Therefor I don't feel we should ship this package in forky/testing. I'm > opening this bug to trigger testing removal after one week, and open up > for discussion. I think we could eventually file a ftp-master RM bug > for this, unless there are objections. > What do you think? > /Simon > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-go/2026/08/msg00056.html > jas@frallan:~/dpkg$ ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org dak rm -Rn > golang-godebiancontrol-dev > Will remove the following packages from unstable: > golang-godebiancontrol-dev | 0.0~git20140119-2.1 | source, all > Maintainer: Michael Stapelberg <[email protected]> > ------------------- Reason ------------------- > ---------------------------------------------- > Checking reverse dependencies... > No dependency problem found. > jas@frallan:~/dpkg$ -- Best regards, Michael
