Andrew Lee <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 9:25 AM Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> While hunting from zombie packages, I found some archived GitHub
>> projects as upstreams.  That by itself is a serious QA signal.
>
> Thank you for hunting these archived upstream.

I pushed my scripts to Salsa and added a wiki page with the output of
them, this page has a more complete list:

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianGoTeam/ArchivedUpstreams

I believe some of those packages should be removed from Debian.  If they
don't have reverse dependencies, they could be identified here first:

https://go-team.pages.debian.net/infra/golang-qa-find-zombies/

That's a more actionable list with concrete ftp-master RM or
severity:serious bug reports.  Each of the testing removals has the
opportunity to find a new orphan in testing.  But eventually we'll find
packages with archived upstreams with reverse dependencies in Debian.
We should file upstream bug reports about that.

> I am preparing a document for Module-Aware Builds transition, I will
> try to cover all these into the document and publish on wiki ASAP.

Thank you!  There are so many minor concerns, and we need better tooling
to generate consistency in the Go packages in Debian.

/Simon

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