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Github action for golangci lint has typecheck errors

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, go
Domain
ci-cd

Research direction

Start with the reported typecheck error in certdb/certdb.go and review the linked golangci-lint troubleshooting FAQ. Reproduce the GitHub Action failure and identify why the import check fails; done means the action no longer reports this typecheck error.

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Description

github_actions

Error

e.g certdb/certdb.go:5:2: could not import encoding/json (Config.Importer.Import(encoding/json) returned nil but no error) (typecheck)

typecheck cannot be disabled like other linters. Docs have some troubleshooting steps here - https://golangci-lint.run/welcome/faq/#why-do-you-have-typecheck-errors

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