cloud-api-adaptor uses a package which is not maintained

[savitrilh]

Describe the bug

cloud-api-adaptor uses the package "github.com/pmezard/go-difflib " which is not maintained

This Repository README.md states as below.

go-difflib

THIS PACKAGE IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED.

At this point, I have no longer the time nor the interest to work on go-difflib. I apologize for the inconvenience.

GoDoc

Go-difflib is a partial port of python 3 difflib package. Its main goal was to make unified and context diff available in pure Go, mostly for testing purposes.

The following class and functions (and related tests) have be ported:

SequenceMatcher
unified_diff()
context_diff()

How to reproduce

github.com/pmezard/go-difflib README says that it is not maintained.

CoCo version information

cloud-api-adaptor

What TEE are you seeing the problem on

None

Failing command and relevant log output

his Repository README.md states as below.

go-difflib

THIS PACKAGE IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED.

At this point, I have no longer the time nor the interest to work on go-difflib. I apologize for the inconvenience.

GoDoc

Go-difflib is a partial port of python 3 difflib package. Its main goal was to make unified and context diff available in pure Go, mostly for testing purposes.

The following class and functions (and related tests) have be ported:

    SequenceMatcher
    unified_diff()
    context_diff()

[stevenhorsman]

This is an indirect dependency that we are pulling in from 57? other modules:

$ go mod graph | grep go-difflib
github.com/confidential-containers/cloud-api-adaptor/src/cloud-api-adaptor github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/resourcemanager/compute/armcompute/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/resourcemanager/containerservice/armcontainerservice/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/resourcemanager/network/armnetwork/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/resourcemanager/resources/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/IBM-Cloud/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/IBM/go-sdk-core/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/IBM/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/IBM/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/avast/retry-go/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/confidential-containers/cloud-api-adaptor/src/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/containerd/cgroups/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/containerd/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/containerd/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/go-openapi/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/go-openapi/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/go-openapi/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/src/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/kdomanski/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/opencontainers/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/stretchr/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/vmware/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
go.opentelemetry.io/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
go.opentelemetry.io/otel/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
k8s.io/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
k8s.io/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
k8s.io/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
k8s.io/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
k8s.io/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
tags.cncf.io/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/stretchr/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/stretchr/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/stretchr/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/stretchr/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/stretchr/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/stretchr/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/stretchr/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/go-openapi/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath/internal/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/stretchr/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/stretchr/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/stretchr/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/sirupsen/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/gobuffalo/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/markbates/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/markbates/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/sirupsen/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/gobuffalo/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/gobuffalo/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]
github.com/sirupsen/[email protected] github.com/pmezard/[email protected]

so it not something that will be at all easy to update