There's no automatic upgrade path, the best you can do is mark the sub module as retracted and/or Deprecated. your users will need some manual action to drop it as a dependency.
- sean On Sat, Dec 14, 2024, 13:37 'Doug Fawley' via golang-nuts < golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > The following section indicates that it should be possible to safely > remove a module from a multi-module repository, and move the removed > module's packages to the parent module: > > > https://go.dev/wiki/Modules#is-it-possible-to-remove-a-module-from-a-multi-module-repository > > However, it doesn't say how to accomplish this. > > To add a new submodule, the steps are clear: > > 1. Create the new module > 2. Add a dependency on the new module to the parent module > > When *merging* two modules, however, there is no way to add a dependency > to the deleted submodule to refer users to the parent module, and there is > no way to refer to a deleted version of the submodule from the parent > module. This results in an ambiguous import if one module in a project > refers to the parent module at the new version and another module in the > same project refers to the deleted submodule at an older version. > > I had wrongly assumed that if a newer version of the parent module > included the package, that it would replace the version in the submodule, > but I now see why that is wrong. But I still don't know how to address the > issue. Is there some way to add an entry in the parent go.mod that > indicates that the submodule was deleted? > > In case it's relevant, the submodule that was removed in this instance was > unstable (v0). But we still don't want to break users that were using it, > since the API didn't change when we incorporated it into the parent module > and released it as stable. > > The specific incident is being tracked here: > https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go/issues/11283 > > Thanks, > Doug > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/3103aade-0d28-4274-a83e-3d947485f650n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/3103aade-0d28-4274-a83e-3d947485f650n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAGabyPr1XHSif4LSGezGOyFgPCLeRixxQND2ydQ2kp26wdT3rw%40mail.gmail.com.
