I often get warnings in my golang projects that my import blocks are duplicates and should be refactored. Unfortunately, that's not how golang works - everything a file referencesmust be imported, there are no transitive imports.

A codeblock like:

package mypackageimport ("fmt""anotherpackage")

Will often occur in many files and the only way to get rid of duplication would be to put everything in one file which is a horrible way to improve maintainability