If you don’t know what I’m talking about vgo requires the release to be tagged like “v1.0.3” which is not standard semver.
Are you talking about git tags? Tagging a release with a "v" followed by the version number has been done since the very first git repository.
I don't think semver has any official standard; the closest I can find is https://semver.org/spec/v1.0.0.html, which does say "When tagging releases in a version control system, the tag for a version MUST be “vX.Y.Z” e.g. “v3.1.0”."
I purposely followed semver 2.0.0 which doesn't mention anything about a "v" prefix. Thanks for finding an old mention of version control tagging!
At the end of the day it's not a big deal. I will just duplicate the tags so it won't break any dep configurations.
https://github.com/gogo/protobuf
https://github.com/olivere/elastic
I'll switch over in the future and keep existing tags for dep users.