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gopherbot opened this issue Jun 3, 2021 · 4 comments
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cmd/go: unhelpful error message when running "go install" on a replaced-but-not-required package [1.16 backport] #46551

gopherbot opened this issue Jun 3, 2021 · 4 comments
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@bcmills requested issue #46528 to be considered for backport to the next 1.16 minor release.

@gopherbot, please backport to Go 1.16.

This condition is fairly rare, but an unhelpful error message can be very confusing and frustrating when it happens, and the fix will hopefully be small and non-invasive.
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@gopherbot gopherbot added this to the Go1.16.6 milestone Jun 3, 2021
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@dmitshur dmitshur modified the milestones: Go1.16.6, Go1.16.7 Jul 12, 2021
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Approving. This was a low-risk fix to a diagnostic message that was introduced in 1.16.

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Change https://golang.org/cl/334371 mentions this issue: [release-branch.go1.16] cmd/go: remove hint when no module is suggested

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bcmills commented Jul 13, 2021

No backport to 1.15 is needed because the unhelpful error message was not present in Go 1.15. (We produced a different error message in Go 1.15, which was not particularly more helpful but also not actively wrong in this case — but this issue didn't crop up much in Go 1.15 because we didn't yet default to -mod=readonly.)

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[release-branch.go1.16] cmd/go: remove hint when no module is suggested

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Updates #46528
Fixes #46551

Change-Id: I2453d321ece878ea7823865758aa4a16b3ed7fe8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/325430
Reviewed-by: Bryan C. Mills <bcmills@google.com>
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Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/334371
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Closed by merging 4c62fd3 to release-branch.go1.16.

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