Bug#940447: RM: golang-gopkg-xmlpath.v2 -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused

Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:42:03 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.wnpp
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reassign 940447 ftp.debian.org
severity 940447 normal
affects 940447 + src:golang-gopkg-xmlpath.v2
retitle 940447 RM: golang-gopkg-xmlpath.v2 -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused
user [email protected]
usertags 940447 remove
thanks

The golang-gopkg-xmlpath.v2 package contains upstream code from 2015,
and appears unmaintained.  It has no reverse dependencies in Debian.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-gopkg-xmlpath.v2

The upstream project has no activity since 11 years ago:

https://github.com/go-xmlpath/xmlpath

This removal request is part of a larger batch to remove 100+ unused
golang-*-dev packages from Debian.  I believe the QA cost associated
with keeping all of them is larger than the cost of (hopefully extremely
rare) re-introduction of any accidentally removed package if there is
ever any future need for it.  Meanwhile, I don't think it is useful to
keep this package in Debian.

/Simon

jas@frallan:~$ ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org dak rm -Rn golang-gopkg-xmlpath.v2
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

golang-gopkg-xmlpath.v2 | 0.0~git20150820.0.860cbec-5.1 | source
golang-gopkg-xmlpath.v2-dev | 0.0~git20150820.0.860cbec-5.1 | all

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

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Checking reverse dependencies...
No dependency problem found.

jas@frallan:~$

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