proxy.golang.org: how to get rid of wrong version in the proxy

[pstibrany]

We have accidentally pushed dummy tag v6.7.8 to our repository several months ago, and even though it has been removed since then, proxy still remembers it. Our project is at 0.4.0 at the moment. How can we get get rid of that dummy version from golang proxy? People trying to use our client library are getting old v6.7.8 now. (github.com/grafana/loki v6.7.8+incompatible)

https://proxy.golang.org suggests that we need to publish new version, but that will only be 0.5.0 or perhaps 1.0.0.

Thanks.

[bcmills]

The unfortunate news is, there is no way in general to get rid of a valid version in the proxy.

The good news is, CL 204440 has landed for Go 1.14, so as long as your latest compatible tagged version has a go.mod file, users on 1.14 (once it is released) will pick up the correct version instead of the erroneous +incompatible one.

CC @katiehockman @heschik @hyangah

[bcmills]

Duplicate of #34189

[pstibrany]

I am trying to understand what can we do in this situation, except waiting for 1.14 and bumping version to v7. I guess we need to ask our users to use GOPROXY=direct when getting our module.

[heschi]

go get github.com/grafana/loki@v0 is a little better than that, at least.