Should I name GH plugin repository with a prefix or not?

Packer
1

Hey,

the docs say this:

….requires you to publish your plugin in a GitHub repo with the name packer-plugin-* where * represents the name of your plugin…

So I did exactly that, battled through outdated release GHA and config until I finally made a release. Now, when I want to test this packer says:

Error: Failed to parse source

  on _bootc_release_zzzap.pkr.hcl line 3, in packer:
   3:     image-builder = {
   4:       version = ">= 0.0.5"
   5:       source = "github.com/lzap/packer-plugin-image-builder"
   6:     }

Plugin source has a type with the prefix "packer-plugin-", which isn't valid.
Although that prefix is often used in the names of version control repositories
for Packer plugins, plugin source strings should not include it.

Did you mean "image-builder"?

I am confused.

2

Ah I think I must use the url without the prefix. When I do it, I just get a confusing error because my repo had some tags without a release and the error message made no sense:

$ packer init _bootc_release_zzzap.pkr.hcl 
Failed getting the "github.com/lzap/image-builder" plugin:
2 errors occurred:
        * could not find a local nor a remote checksum for plugin "github.com/lzap/image-builder" ">= 0.0.1"
        * could not install any compatible version of plugin "github.com/lzap/image-builder"

Can someone explain to me what exactly my release is missing?