chore: do not use sentinel errors when unneeded

- main reason being it's a burden to always define sentinel errors at global scope, wrap them with `%w` instead of using a string directly
- only use sentinel errors when it has to be checked using `errors.Is`
- replace all usage of these sentinel errors in `fmt.Errorf` with direct strings that were in the sentinel error
- exclude the sentinel error definition requirement from .golangci.yml
- update unit tests to use ContainersError instead of ErrorIs so it stays as a "not a change detector test" without requiring a sentinel error

internal/version/github.go

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package version
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 	"time"
@@ -25,8 +24,6 @@ type githubCommit struct {
 	} `json:"commit"`
 }
 
-var errHTTPStatusCode = errors.New("bad response HTTP status code")
-
 func getGithubReleases(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client) (releases []githubRelease, err error) {
 	// Define a timeout since the default client has a large timeout and we don't
 	// want to wait too long.
@@ -47,7 +44,7 @@ func getGithubReleases(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client) (releases []git
 	defer response.Body.Close()
 
 	if response.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: %d %s", errHTTPStatusCode,
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("bad response HTTP status code: %d %s",
 			response.StatusCode, response.Status)
 	}
 

internal/version/version.go

@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ func GetMessage(ctx context.Context, buildInfo models.BuildInformation,
 		nil
 }
 
-var errReleaseNotFound = errors.New("release not found")
-
 func getLatestRelease(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client) (tagName, name string, time time.Time, err error) {
 	releases, err := getGithubReleases(ctx, client)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -61,11 +59,9 @@ func getLatestRelease(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client) (tagName, name s
 		}
 		return release.TagName, release.Name, release.PublishedAt, nil
 	}
-	return "", "", time, fmt.Errorf("%w", errReleaseNotFound)
+	return "", "", time, errors.New("release not found")
 }
 
-var errCommitNotFound = errors.New("commit not found")
-
 func getCommitsSince(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, commitShort string) (n int, err error) {
 	commits, err := getGithubCommits(ctx, client)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -77,5 +73,5 @@ func getCommitsSince(ctx context.Context, client *http.Client, commitShort strin
 		}
 		n++
 	}
-	return 0, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", errCommitNotFound, commitShort)
+	return 0, fmt.Errorf("commit not found: %s", commitShort)
 }