[pkg-go] Bug#1130525: golang-github-howeyc-gopass: package no longer maintained

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Thu Jul 23 08:19:15 BST 2026


Control: severity -1 normal
Control: retitle -1 RM: golang-github-howeyc-gopass -- ROTeamM; unmaintained and unused 
Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:golang-github-howeyc-gopass
Control: user: ftp.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Control: Usertags: remove
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-go at lists.debian.org, Antoine Beaupre <anarcat at debian.org>

We finalled removed all reverse dependencies of
golang-github-howeyc-gopass, time to let go of this package!  See
earlier discussion in this bug report, including initial motication:

This package has not seen a commit in about five years. It was
archived on September 20, 2021:

https://github.com/howeyc/gopass

Its README file says:

> No longer maintained. You should just use terminal.

"terminal" is a link to https://golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal.  

/Simon

jas at frallan:~/dpkg$ ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org dak rm -Rn golang-github-howeyc-gopass
Will remove the following packages from unstable:

golang-github-howeyc-gopass | 0.0~git20190910.7cb4b85+dfsg.1-1 | source
golang-github-howeyc-gopass-dev | 0.0~git20190910.7cb4b85+dfsg.1-1 | all

Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <pkg-go-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>

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Checking reverse dependencies...
No dependency problem found.

jas at frallan:~/dpkg$ 
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