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Matthew Topol commented on ARROW-8051:
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We only indirectly depend on go-difflib due to relying on
github.com/stretchr/testify for the assert/mock libraries.
github.com/stretchr/testify is maintained though, so I don't think this is a
problem right now.
> [Go] Dependency pmezard/go-difflib is unmaintained
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>
> Key: ARROW-8051
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-8051
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Go
> Reporter: Wes McKinney
> Priority: Major
>
> I saw this error (transient?) in CI
> {code}
> Parsing meta tags from https://golang.org/x/xerrors?go-get=1 (status code 200)
> get "golang.org/x/xerrors": found meta tag
> get.metaImport{Prefix:"golang.org/x/xerrors", VCS:"git",
> RepoRoot:"https://go.googlesource.com/xerrors"} at
> https://golang.org/x/xerrors?go-get=1
> go: finding golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20191204190536-9bdfabe68543
> go: github.com/pmezard/[email protected]: unknown revision v1.0.0
> go: error loading module requirements
> {code}
> Which led me to https://github.com/pmezard/go-difflib. It seems this package
> is not maintained. Should it be depended on?
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