fix: golangci-lint failures when tested against Go 1.20 (#457)

fix: golangci-lint failed when tested against Go 1.20

Signed-off-by: Radoslav Dimitrov <[email protected]>

Author: rdimitrov

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -66,5 +66,5 @@ jobs:
       - name: golangci-lint
         uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@08e2f20817b15149a52b5b3ebe7de50aff2ba8c5
         with:
-          version: v1.49
+          version: v1.51 # has to be pinned and thus manually updated due to https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint-action/blob/6a290f7d5d488e1e423b0b37fe802c822ca2c08c/README.md?plain=1#L108
           args: --timeout 5m --verbose

.golangci.yml

@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-run:
-  # Lint using Go 1.17, since some linters are disabled by default for Go 1.18
-  # until generics are supported.
-  # See https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/issues/2649
-  go: '1.17'
-
 linters:
   disable-all: true
   enable: