>>>>Ping, managed to write a workaround to make go test cooperate but I
>>>>don't think it is very pretty, suggestions on how to do it better more
>>>>than welcome, also bumped the version to 2.8.1

>I had no problem with running 'make test'. Did I miss something ?
Yes, the current specific go mod target in the Makefile works around the problem, but I have no idea if that is appropriate here