In the Go packaging scheme, they shouldn't. The idea is that a URL is API-stable. Changing the folder structure changes the API (package names). For this reaso

In the Go packaging scheme, they shouldn't. The idea is that a URL is API-stable. Changing the folder structure changes the API (package names). For this reason, you have wrappers like http://gopkg.in/ http://gopkg.in/ , which permit some freedom in the form of git tags. (I fully agree that Go packaging is very sensitive to API changes and incidents like sites disappearing altogether.)