go.mod patch version is forcing toolchain, breaking builds.

[matthewhartstonge]

Hi Team,

I noticed that RenovateBot added a patch released that pushed minimum requirements of Go up to 1.22.11. This patch version was introduced via revonatebot #1185

This has ended up proliferating through the API SDKs and breaking CI/dependency upgrade builds.

Can the version requirement be relaxed to 1.22 to remain compatible with Go's version guarantees.

Environment details

• Programming language: Golang
• OS: macOS
• Language runtime version: latest

Steps to reproduce

1. update google.golang.org/api from 0.219.0 to 0.220.0

Version Request

• Would you please reduce the minimum Go version just as deps: Remove Go minor version from go.mods grpc/grpc-go#7831?
• Would you please drop the toolchain directive, unless it's necessary?

Related/Relevant Issues

• cmd/go: toolchain directive in go.mod being updated unnecessarily golang/go#65847
• "Minimum Virus": Please Support 1.22 Without Patch Version Requirement InfluxCommunity/influxdb3-go#133

[quartzmo]

Related to googleapis/google-cloud-go#11468.

[matthewhartstonge]

Ahh sorry @quartzmo - I had a sift through open issues before filing.
Was 3-4 repos deep finding the culprit and missed the issue in this repo 🙈

[quartzmo]

@matthewhartstonge It was good that you opened these issues. 11468 is for the root problem (Renovate), but we still need to discover and fix these leaf issues as well.

[quartzmo]

Attempting to remove toolchain and downgrade go to 1.22, I get this error:

➜  go-genproto git:(main) ✗ go1.22.0 mod tidy
go: cloud.google.com/go/bigtable@v1.35.0 requires go >= 1.22.7 (running go 1.22.0; GOTOOLCHAIN=local)

[liggitt]

Yeah, it's viral, have to unwind in all dependencies before you can roll it back here.

[quartzmo]

@liggitt Do you know anything about any effort to unwind this in Open Telemetry? Is there an existing issue?

[liggitt]

I do not, sorry

[codyoss]

@quartzmo I think we have several of this issues. Can we consolidate all the threads down to one issue. It would be nice to keep the conversation all in one place.