The aufs package last saw a maintainer upload in September 2019 and was 
last-updated (by a NMU) in October 2019. It has had broken build-dependencies 
in testing for half a year now (since Linux 5.3.9-3 migrated to testing in 
November 2019).

According to dak rm the aufs source-package has two reverse-dependencies, 
aufs-tools and fsprotect neither of which has any reverse-dependencies.

Adrian filed a rc bug in November 2019 which received no maintainer response, however the 
package was not autoremoved from testing due to aufs and aufs-tools being considered a 
"key packages" due to high popcon. This popcon actually seems to be growing in 
both absolute and percentage terms. I presume the high popcon is due to some deriviative 
(hence debian-derivatives and debian-live in cc) using aufs in their live image builds 
(as far as I can tell debian's own live images seem to use overlayfs instead nowadays).

aufs does seem to still be maintained upstream with upstream claiming support 
for Linux 5.6.

According to contributors.debian.net Jan Luca Naumann (the aufs maintainer) was 
last active in September 2019. Jan: are you still around? and if so do you 
still intend to maintain the aufs package? if not is someone else going to step 
up to the plate? or should these packages be removed from testing?

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