From language specs
sometimes you may need to move a .proto file to a new location. Instead of moving the .proto file directly and updating all the call sites in a single change, you can put a placeholder .proto file in the old location to forward all the imports to the new location using the import public notion.
We already have support in parser for these special import types
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From language specs
We already have support in parser for these special import types
For more information