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by ilovecaching 2652 days ago
This has never been a problem in Go, the repo name encodes the owner of a fork, and two separate repo paths with the same version are still completely different modules.

The nice thing about not doing what debian does is that there is consistency. Freeform usually means diverging opinions, which is not the Go way.
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rdsubhas 2652 days ago
I believe parent's question was: Yes, you will have different repo names. But there is sub version pinning. i.e. The first patch of v1.2.3 is called v1.2.3.1 (or v1.2.3-1 or something). Then the repo itself will evolve, and keep publishing v1.2.3-2, v1.2.3-4 and so on.

Patched versions are "sub" versions of the main version, and those sub versions also keep evolving for the same upstream version.

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