All, I was reading the Developers reference about mass bug filing
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.en.html#reporting-lots-of-bugs-at-once-mass-bug-filing and wonder how that interact with removing large number of packages from the archive, which would involve a large number of ftp-master RM bugs. I've prepared a list of Go source/library packages (i.e., a Debian source package providing a single golang-*-dev binary containing source code for building other packages) that have no reverse dependencies in Debian. There are 205 packages dated 2020 or earlier, which are candidates for removal: https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/infra/golang-qa-find-zombies/-/jobs/10136666#L141 There is discussion in the Debian Go team about what to do about these packages, and there is early agreement that they could be removed to reduce the precious QA time that is needed to get all the Go packages in shape before forky. We are spending QA time to keep these packages on continued life support. We could just actively kill them instead, if we establish some mechanism to identify them. The assumption is that shipping golang-*-dev packages has too low usefulness for users of Debian to motivate the cost of keeping them. Is it acceptable to keep filing manually curated per-package bugs asking for removal, even if the number is above 10 packages? Above 100? The bugs would be manually prepared and curated, and I doubt anyone will manage to file more than 10-20 per day. Is there any other way to remove a large number of packages other than one ftp-master bug per package? While further manual pruning of the list is necessary to establish a good criteria when to remove a package, I'm certain that we talk about at least 100 packages that could/should be removed. I went through an earlier version of the list earlier today, and the first packages I looked all seemed like reasonable candidates for removal so I filed ftp-master RM bugs on them. Review appreciated if anyone thinks these should be kept: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940346 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940347 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940379 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940391 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940407 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940430 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940432 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1004303 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1144378 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1144379 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1144380 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1144381 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1144382 I didn't want to keep filing more without debian-devel@ discussion after reading the section about mass bug filing. Thoughts? Any other concerns that we didn't think about? Below is a list of packages that needs further manual checking. See code in https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/infra/golang-qa-find-zombies if anyone wants to review or contribute. There are more packages from 2021-2026 too, but I started with packages older than 2020 first. /Simon https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-godebiancontrol-dev https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-go-xdg https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-ugorji-go-msgpack https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-rakyll-globalconf https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-airbrake-go https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-vaughan0-go-ini https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-robfig-config https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-pathtree https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-stevvooe-resumable https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-spf13-nitro https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-yosssi-ace-proxy https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-qor-inflection https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-tent-canonical-json-go https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-ttacon-chalk https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/golang-github-stvp-go-udp-testing 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