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

Thorsten Alteholz <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sun, 16 Aug 2026, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Would it make sense to use 'severity: wishlist' for simpler
>> prioritization?
>
> No, the severity of those bugs is ignored.
>
>> There is no urgency about these removals, and getting lots of them may
>> be stressful, and could drown out other other's RM requests which should
>> have priority.
>
> No, don't worry, there is really no stress when lots of RM bugs appear.

Great!

Does anyone have thoughts if we should clarify on

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.en.html#reporting-lots-of-bugs-at-once-mass-bug-filing

that mass bug filing of ftp-master RM bugs is not a deprecated practice?

I'm in particular thinking of this wording:

   Reporting a great number of bugs for the same problem on a great
   number of different packages — i.e., more than 10 — is a deprecated
   practice. Take all possible steps to avoid submitting bulk bugs at
   all.

It seems that this is not correct when it comes to ftp-master RM bugs,
or I misunderstand things.

For the next batch of planned Go package removals, see:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-go/2026/08/msg00087.html

There are potentially hundreds more of these, but I started with the
2014-2017 era of packages first.

/Simon

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