Bug#1143916: RM: golang-github-bmizerany-assert -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.rc
Message-ID <87ecfwgcms.fsf__9528.79393459938$1787034917$gmane$org@josefsson.org>
reassign 1143916 ftp.debian.org
severity 1143916 normal
affects 1143916 + src:golang-github-bmizerany-assert
retitle 1143916 RM: golang-github-bmizerany-assert -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused
user [email protected]
usertags 1143916 remove
thanks

After fixing the reverse dependencies (see earlier e-mails in this bug),
we are ready to remove the golang-github-bmizerany-assert package.  It
has no remaining reverse dependencies in Debian.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-bmizerany-assert

The upstream project was declared unmaintained ~10 years ago:

https://github.com/bmizerany/assert

"NO LONGER MAINTAINED - Just use Go's testing package."

I don't think it is useful to keep this package in Debian.

/Simon

jas@frallan:~/dpkg$ ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org dak rm -Rn golang-github-bmizerany-assert
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

golang-github-bmizerany-assert | 0.0~git20160611.b7ed37b-1 | source
golang-github-bmizerany-assert-dev | 0.0~git20160611.b7ed37b-1 | all

Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <[email protected]>

------------------- Reason -------------------

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Checking reverse dependencies...
No dependency problem found.

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