[ARROW-8051] [Go] Dependency pmezard/go-difflib is unmaintained

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Go
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/24265
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 10/Mar/20 00:57
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:57

Description

I saw this error (transient?) in CI

Parsing meta tags from https://golang.org/x/xerrors?go-get=1 (status code 200)
get "golang.org/x/xerrors": found meta tag get.metaImport{Prefix:"golang.org/x/xerrors", VCS:"git", RepoRoot:"https://go.googlesource.com/xerrors"} at https://golang.org/x/xerrors?go-get=1
go: finding golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20191204190536-9bdfabe68543
go: github.com/pmezard/go-difflib@v1.0.0: unknown revision v1.0.0
go: error loading module requirements

Which led me to https://github.com/pmezard/go-difflib. It seems this package is not maintained. Should it be depended on?