golang.org/x/tools removed vcs package

[malt3]

What version of gazelle are you using?

latest main

What version of rules_go are you using?

latest (v0.41.0)

What version of Bazel are you using?

6.2.1

Does this issue reproduce with the latest releases of all the above?

yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using?

Ubuntu 22.04 / x86_64

What did you do?

I tried to upgrade golang.org/x/tools in my repo. My repo also uses bazel-gazelle.

What did you expect to see?

The upgrade should suceed.

What did you see instead?

Gazelle does not compile anymore when I use it in my repo. Since it depends on golang.org/x/tools/go/vcs, which has been removed in version v0.11.0, minimum version selection will lead to a missing package:

INFO: Invocation ID: 70b7838e-b211-4814-8453-c488d6156b94
ERROR: /home/malte/.cache/bazel/_bazel_malte/bb1175a64d2f0f71785aea697a0484ea/external/bazel_gazelle/repo/BUILD.bazel:3:11: no such package '@org_golang_x_tools//go/vcs': BUILD file not found in directory 'go/vcs' of external repository @org_golang_x_tools. Add a BUILD file to a directory to mark it as a package. and referenced by '@bazel_gazelle//repo:repo'
ERROR: Analysis of target '//:tidy' failed; build aborted: 
INFO: Elapsed time: 0.236s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (0 packages loaded, 0 targets configured)
ERROR: Build failed. Not running target

See also: golang/go#57051

[rezass]

Same problem here

[Geethree]

Just started seeing this on one project as well.

[sluongng]

the package was moved to https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/tools/go/vcs@v0.1.0-deprecated

So short term: we need to upgrade Gazelle dependencies to include this new module, then update the BUILD file so that fetch_repo_lib has the correct deps.

Long term: we should stop using this package and either vendor in the 2 functions needed, or move to use something else.

[eko]

Forcing golang.org/x/tools module version to v0.10.0 fixed this issue for now.

[Geethree]

Forcing golang.org/x/tools module version to v0.10.0 fixed this issue for now.

@eko How did you force it? Do you mean just pinning the dependency in your go.mid?

[eko]

Hi @Geethree, yes, just by editing the version in the go.mod file and running these commands again:

$ go mod tidy
$ bazel run //:gazelle -- update-repos -from_file=go.mod -to_macro=deps.bzl%go_dependencies