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

Hi!

On Mon, 2026-08-17 at 00:03:12 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> You make some good points about C library packages, but I'm not sure
> Debian should be carrying packages just on the off chance people want
> to be able to build against them. Maybe popcon could be used as input
> to see if people are actually installing these packages for that
> purpose?

A big difference between Rust/Go packaging ecosystems is that they have
their own language package managers, while C projects do not (in
general), and removing them from Debian makes them more inaccessible
or inconvenient to use for people or other projects.

Thanks,
Guillem