k8s io/kubernetes is not really importable. We put no effort into making that clean or easy, and we don’t support it or make any guarantees of API stability.
If you need a specific package from there, please file an issue and we can talk about whether/how to support it.
Yes, a real issue would be best. We need to know exactly which libraries are trying to depend on something inside kubernetes, so we can figure out if it’s the right thing to do and if so, how or if to externalize that.