x: keep versions syncronized

[perillo]

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

$ go version
go version go1.14 linux/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes.

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

go env Output

$ go env
GO111MODULE="on"
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN="/home/manlio/.local/bin"
GOCACHE="/home/manlio/.cache/go-build"
GOENV="/home/manlio/.config/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOINSECURE="test.local"
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/manlio/.local/lib/go:/home/manlio/src/go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/usr/lib/go"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/lib/go/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="gcc"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/dev/null"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build748269330=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"
GOROOT/bin/go version: go version go1.14 linux/amd64
GOROOT/bin/go tool compile -V: compile version go1.14
uname -sr: Linux 5.5.8-arch1-1
/usr/lib/libc.so.6: GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.31.
gdb --version: GNU gdb (GDB) 9.1

What did you do?

I have a module that requires the golang.org/x/mod and golang.org/x/errors modules.

What did you expect to see?

The go.sum file to only have one version of each module.

What did you see instead?

golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20190308221718-c2843e01d9a2/go.mod h1:djNgcEr1/C05ACkg1iLfiJU5Ep61QUkGW8qpdssI0+w=
golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20191011191535-87dc89f01550/go.mod h1:yigFU9vqHzYiE8UmvKecakEJjdnWj3jj499lnFckfCI=
golang.org/x/mod v0.2.0 h1:KU7oHjnv3XNWfa5COkzUifxZmxp1TyI7ImMXqFxLwvQ=
golang.org/x/mod v0.2.0/go.mod h1:s0Qsj1ACt9ePp/hMypM3fl4fZqREWJwdYDEqhRiZZUA=
golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20190404232315-eb5bcb51f2a3/go.mod h1:t9HGtf8HONx5eT2rtn7q6eTqICYqUVnKs3thJo3Qplg=
golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20190620200207-3b0461eec859/go.mod h1:z5CRVTTTmAJ677TzLLGU+0bjPO0LkuOLi4/5GtJWs/s=
golang.org/x/sync v0.0.0-20190423024810-112230192c58/go.mod h1:RxMgew5VJxzue5/jJTE5uejpjVlOe/izrB70Jof72aM=
golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190215142949-d0b11bdaac8a/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190412213103-97732733099d/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=
golang.org/x/text v0.3.0/go.mod h1:NqM8EUOU14njkJ3fqMW+pc6Ldnwhi/IjpwHt7yyuwOQ=
golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20191119224855-298f0cb1881e/go.mod h1:b+2E5dAYhXwXZwtnZ6UAqBI28+e2cm9otk0dWdXHAEo=
golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20190717185122-a985d3407aa7/go.mod h1:I/5z698sn9Ka8TeJc9MKroUUfqBBauWjQqLJ2OPfmY0=
golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20191011141410-1b5146add898/go.mod h1:I/5z698sn9Ka8TeJc9MKroUUfqBBauWjQqLJ2OPfmY0=
golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20191204190536-9bdfabe68543 h1:E7g+9GITq07hpfrRu66IVDexMakfv52eLZ2CXBWiKr4=
golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20191204190536-9bdfabe68543/go.mod h1:I/5z698sn9Ka8TeJc9MKroUUfqBBauWjQqLJ2OPfmY0=

This is a mess, and go mod tidy may not be able to remove unused lines (it happened to me after a go get -u but I'm not sure if I did things correctly).

Thanks.

[bcmills]

The lazy-loading proposal in #36460 would generally reduce your go.sum file to only one version of each module. (Without some form of lazy loading, every go.mod file in your transitive dependencies, regardless of whether its version is ultimately selected, influences the minimum version requirements.)

In the interim, I don't think it is feasible to try to synchronize all of the x repos. That would be a lot of toil for very little benefit (a few checksums and a few extra downloaded go.mod files, but note that you generally will not download source code for modules older than the selected version).

[bcmills]

Closing as infeasible for now. Once we (hopefully!) have lazy loading, this should be much less of an issue in the first place.

CC @jayconrod @matloob @dmitshur