I get v1.52.2
go get github.com/tidwall/geodesic@latest

go: downloading github.com/tidwall/geodesic v1.52.2
go get: added github.com/tidwall/geodesic v1.52.2

both when I use go1.16 and go1.18-d0dd26a88c

From https://golang.org/ref/mod#go-mod-file-retract
To retract a version, a module author should add a retract directive to go.mod, then publish a new version containing that directive. The new version must be higher than other release or pre-release versions

this is probably why the retraction is not working; the retract statement is set at a lower version

Interesting, it seems that the retract directive that I added did work correctly for the go get command.

For example, when I do a go list, it returns the correct versions and recognizes v0.3.0 as the latest.

$ go list -m -u -versions github.com/tidwall/geodesic
github.com/tidwall/geodesic v0.1.0 v0.2.0 v0.2.1 v0.3.0

$ go list -m -u github.com/tidwall/geodesic@latest
github.com/tidwall/geodesic v0.3.0

But, the pkg.go.dev website does not point to v0.3.0 as the latest.

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/tidwall/geodesic

Is there a way I can purge the package entirely from pkg.go.dev, and then allow for it to rebuild using the correct versions?

I confused. I wonder whey my go get is returning different results than yours?

Do you have GOPROXY=direct or GOPRIVATE set?

Thanks for all the feedback.

Since the Go documentation clearly states that you cannot retract the latest version, it seems that there is nothing I can do at this point but to use a higher version number.

I'm closing the issue for now.

You can publish a higher version and at the same time retract it, ie create v1.52.3 and in it retract v1.52.1 - v1.52.3

@seankhliao Thanks for the tip. I just tried that. I added this to go.mod

retract (
	v1.52.3 
	v1.52.2 
	v1.52.1 
)

and create two new versions, v0.3.1 and v1.52.3 that point to the same commit.

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/tidwall/geodesic still shows

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/tidwall/geodesic@v1.52.3 show

Interestingly, searching for the package https://pkg.go.dev/search?q=geodesic&m=package displays the correct version.

Also go list -m -u github.com/tidwall/geodesic@latest now shows.

$ go list -m -u github.com/tidwall/geodesic@latest
go list -m: github.com/tidwall/geodesic@v1.52.3: retracted by module author: versions that no longer exists in trunk

So it kinda works, kinda doesn't. 🤷‍♂️

It seems to work now.

go list -m -u github.com/tidwall/geodesic

and

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/tidwall/geodesic

point to the same version

Magic. I'm a happy boy. :)