Topic: should we continue to force errors.Errorf()?

[rchincha]

Discussed in https://github.com/project-stacker/stacker/discussions/376

^{Originally posted by **hallyn** December 19, 2022} The errors package has been "archived" (https://github.com/pkg/errors/issues/245). errors.Wrapf() is supposed to be replaced by fmt.Errorf("%w"). However, (1) %w output is not liked by some, and more importantly (2) fmt.Errorf does not yet support a way to add a stack trace, which was the original reason for requiring errors.Errorf() in the stacker package. What should be the official guidance right now? Should we continue recommending/requiring the errors package, or switch?

[mitar]

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