structslop linter failing on Go 1.20 with internal error: package "errors" without types was imported from ...

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Overview

The linter has been provided by images from this project since 2020-11-29, but I hadn't used it regularly until added to a shared set of importable workflows.

For the Go 1.19 based go-ci-oldstable image it works fine, but for Go 1.20 images it gives errors like this one:

structslop: internal error: package "errors" without types was imported from "github.com/atc0005/send2teams/internal/config"

It was called like this from the GitHub Actions workflow from the root of a cloned repo:

structslop ./...

References

• https://github.com/orijtech/structslop
• Consider adding orijtech/structslop #140
  • Add orijtech/structslop linter v0.0.5 #145
• https://github.com/atc0005/send2teams/actions/runs/4478483267/jobs/7871304105
• is this linter compatible with Go 1.20+ ? orijtech/structslop#58

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How to reproduce:

1. docker image pull golang:1.20.2
2. docker container run -it --rm golang:1.20.2
3. git clone https://github.com/atc0005/check-whois
4. cd check-whois
5. go install github.com/orijtech/structslop/cmd/structslop@v0.0.7
6. structslop ./...

Output:

root@6c4091e45d1e:/go/check-whois# structslop ./...
structslop: internal error: package "errors" without types was imported from "github.com/atc0005/check-whois/internal/domain"

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Opened upstream bug report.

For now, I've disabled use of the linter from the shared GH workflow.

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See also:

• https://github.com/dkorunic/betteralign

Might be worth exploring if the upstream bug report doesn't get any traction (i.e., the project may not be maintained any longer).

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• Consider including dkorunic/betteralign #976

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This was resolved per #994