Please remove binaries for 0.9.2-0ubuntu3

[Balint Reczey]

The package's architecture is changed from "any" to "all" and this prevents migration to the release pocket.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Guess I could do that, yes. One question though: I see 0.9.2-0ubuntu3 was still generating the transitional package golang-prometheus-client-dev, but that doesn't seem to be the case for 1.2.1-3. I didn't have time to look into this closely, but a quick reverse-depends call shows that there still seem to be packages depending on the transitional package. I could remove the old binaries, but if I also do the same for the transitional ones, wouldn't it make some packages uninstallable?

$ reverse-depends golang-prometheus-client-dev
Reverse-Depends
===============
* golang-github-anacrolix-missinggo-dev
* golang-github-armon-go-metrics-dev
* golang-github-google-cadvisor-dev
* golang-github-influxdb-influxdb-dev
* golang-github-mcuadros-go-gin-prometheus-dev
* golang-github-skynetservices-skydns-dev

Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in: amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x
$ reverse-depends -b golang-prometheus-client-dev
Reverse-Build-Depends
=====================
* cadvisor
* gitlab-workhorse
* golang-github-anacrolix-missinggo
* golang-github-armon-go-metrics
* golang-github-mcuadros-go-gin-prometheus
* influxdb
* nomad
* prometheus-haproxy-exporter
* skydns

[Balint Reczey (rbalint)]

Thanks, indeed, there are reverse dependencies.
Adding back the transitional package helps, but autopkgtest is broken so this needs more work.

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

Actually the new binary package provides the old transitional package:

https://sources.debian.org/src/golang-github-prometheus-client-golang/1.2.1-3/debian/control/#L36

Yet, I submitted merge requests on salsa for all the mentioned packages which still build/runtime depend on the old transitional package.

Unfortunately this is one of the reasons why src:prometheus FTBFS on Focal at the moment:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/prometheus/+bug/1878709

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

I got patches accepted in all the mentioned projects (some of them were already fixed when I checked). Now we need to wait for a release of those packages in Debian to sync them.

https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/prometheus-haproxy-exporter/-/merge_requests/1
https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-github-mcuadros-go-gin-prometheus/-/merge_requests/1
https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-github-armon-go-metrics/-/merge_requests/2
https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/golang-github-anacrolix-missinggo/-/merge_requests/1
https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/gitlab-workhorse/-/merge_requests/3
https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/influxdb/-/merge_requests/1

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

Updated list of rdeps at the moment:

$ reverse-depends -r groovy golang-prometheus-client-dev
Reverse-Depends
* golang-github-armon-go-metrics-dev
* golang-github-google-cadvisor-dev
* golang-github-influxdb-influxdb-dev

Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in: amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x
$ reverse-depends -r groovy -b golang-prometheus-client-dev
Reverse-Build-Depends
* cadvisor
* golang-github-armon-go-metrics
* influxdb
* nomad

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

Updated list of rdeps:

$ reverse-depends -r groovy golang-prometheus-client-dev
Reverse-Depends
* golang-github-armon-go-metrics-dev

Packages without architectures listed are reverse-dependencies in: amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, s390x

$ reverse-depends -r groovy -b golang-prometheus-client-dev
Reverse-Build-Depends
* golang-github-armon-go-metrics
* nomad

Both packages (nomad and golang-github-armon-go-metrics) are fixed in groovy-proposed, however, they are blocked atm.

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

golang-github-armon-go-metrics got fixed and made its way into the release pocket, now there is no runtime dep blocking this removal.

$ reverse-depends -r groovy golang-prometheus-client-dev

$ reverse-depends -r groovy -b golang-prometheus-client-dev
Reverse-Build-Depends
* nomad

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

nomad FTBFS was fixed and now it is blocked by golang-github-prometheus-client-golang. Excuses page says golang-github-prometheus-client-golang is missing builds on arm64, armhf, ppc64el and s390x, but from my understanding this is happening because the package changed to arch:all.

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

With no action from my side (not sure what happened) nomad migrated, so there is nothing blocking the removal now:

$ reverse-depends -r groovy golang-prometheus-client-dev
No reverse dependencies found
$ reverse-depends -r groovy -b golang-prometheus-client-dev
No reverse dependencies found

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

$ remove-package -b -s groovy -m "NBS (LP: #1868500)" golang-prometheus-client-dev
Removing packages from groovy:
 golang-prometheus-client-dev 0.9.2-0ubuntu3 in groovy amd64
 golang-prometheus-client-dev 0.9.2-0ubuntu3 in groovy arm64
 golang-prometheus-client-dev 0.9.2-0ubuntu3 in groovy armhf
 golang-prometheus-client-dev 0.9.2-0ubuntu3 in groovy ppc64el
 golang-prometheus-client-dev 0.9.2-0ubuntu3 in groovy s390x
Comment: NBS (LP: #1868500)
Remove [y|N]? y
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