Canonical howett.net/plist package is not "go gettable"

[lsegal]

I am running into an issue with dep ensure in which dep expects the howett.net/plist package to be "go gettable", in other words, that it follows the same "Remote import paths" lookup rules expected by go get. It turns out this package is not following these rules properly.

The end result is that dep ensure returns the following error:

$ dep ensure
...
✗ unable to deduce repository and source type for "howett.net/plist": unable to read metadata: go-import metadata not found

Which is a cryptic version of the more understandable error printed by go get howett.net/plist:

$ go get howett.net/plist
package howett.net/plist: unrecognized import path "howett.net/plist" (parse https://howett.net/plist?go-get=1: no go-import meta tags ())

Unfortunately this means I can't use howett.net/plist as my canonical import with dep right now, since dep currently does not support custom package names in its constraint solver; a detailed discussion can be found at golang/dep#1267 but tl;dr, it doesn't seem like dep plans on supporting packages that are not "go gettable".

Fortunately this is fairly easily resolved by adding a /plist URI to howett.net that responds with something (HTML?) containing:

<meta name="go-import" content="howett.net/plist git https://github.com/DHowett/go-plist">

I'm not sure if that used to be there and disappeared or if dep changed its behavior, but could this be added (back?) to your domain?

The only other option I have is to move over to github.com/DHowett/go-plist, but I read in #22 that you explicitly do not want that name to be used.

[DHowett]

This should now be fixed. The letsencrypt installer disabled the go get redirect on howett.net.

Thanks for the report!

[DHowett]

(and now that I'm home: fix confirmed through dep)

[lsegal]

Thanks for the quick fix!