Re: Mass-remove zombie golang-*-dev sources before forky?

* Simon Josefsson ([email protected]) wrote:
> All,
> 
> I was reading the Developers reference about mass bug filing
> 
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.en.html#reporting-lots-of-bugs-at-once-mass-bug-filing
> 
> and wonder how that interact with removing large number of packages from
> the archive, which would involve a large number of ftp-master RM bugs.
> 
> I've prepared a list of Go source/library packages (i.e., a Debian
> source package providing a single golang-*-dev binary containing source
> code for building other packages) that have no reverse dependencies in
> Debian.  There are 205 packages dated 2020 or earlier, which are
> candidates for removal:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/infra/golang-qa-find-zombies/-/jobs/10136666#L141

[snip]

This looks great but I wonder how much of it is specific to Go and
shouldn't just be applied in general to all library packages?


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