Bug#1144566: keep golang-godebiancontrol-dev out forky/testing, perhaps remove it?

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 -------------------

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Checking reverse dependencies...
No dependency problem found.

jas@frallan:~/dpkg$

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