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> FWIW transitive proto compilation with an aspect is probably not the right method to use any longer. Both rules_proto and rules_proto_grpc have dropped aspect based compilation in favour of...

I'm reluctant to fix workarounds in upb, that are broken with fixes in proto_library for LTS release: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/upb/issues/784 It doesn't sound like a good use of my time. @meteorcloudy, can...

Please hold this PR until after LTS.

This would help immensely when doing merges, triggering less conflicts. Right now every new load triggers a conflict.

I think the docs are correct and `sets` are the ones deprecated.

@tetromino it makes sense to point users to the `sets.bzl`, right? And get over the `new_` and `old_`, fiasco.

> We'd need: > > * ideally - a way to avoid breaking Bazel 4.x (as a hack - maybe check for a bazel 5.x-only feature using hasattr?) There are...

cc @meteorcloudy > I think we need to invert this. Having each rule set test against LTS 4.x does not help. What has to happen is that bazel team runs...

We dropped this approach.

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