diff --git a/api/server/router/system/system.go b/api/server/router/system/system.go
index cb4311a117..f4c0bce982 100644
--- a/api/server/router/system/system.go
+++ b/api/server/router/system/system.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.19
+
 package system // import "github.com/docker/docker/api/server/router/system"
 
 import (
diff --git a/builder/builder-next/adapters/containerimage/pull.go b/builder/builder-next/adapters/containerimage/pull.go
index 9ee2084d2b..6a8be68762 100644
--- a/builder/builder-next/adapters/containerimage/pull.go
+++ b/builder/builder-next/adapters/containerimage/pull.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.19
+
 package containerimage
 
 import (
diff --git a/daemon/daemon.go b/daemon/daemon.go
index 16352e878e..3c207f2cf3 100644
--- a/daemon/daemon.go
+++ b/daemon/daemon.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.19
+
 // Package daemon exposes the functions that occur on the host server
 // that the Docker daemon is running.
 //
diff --git a/daemon/info.go b/daemon/info.go
index 2705cd5ec8..b35b599ad3 100644
--- a/daemon/info.go
+++ b/daemon/info.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.19
+
 package daemon // import "github.com/docker/docker/daemon"
 
 import (
diff --git a/libnetwork/config/config.go b/libnetwork/config/config.go
index efd530b794..e23efbb683 100644
--- a/libnetwork/config/config.go
+++ b/libnetwork/config/config.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.19
+
 package config
 
 import (
diff --git a/libnetwork/drivers/overlay/peerdb.go b/libnetwork/drivers/overlay/peerdb.go
index 35e7b2e671..1790c95787 100644
--- a/libnetwork/drivers/overlay/peerdb.go
+++ b/libnetwork/drivers/overlay/peerdb.go
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-//go:build linux
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.19 && linux
 
 package overlay
 
diff --git a/libnetwork/internal/setmatrix/setmatrix.go b/libnetwork/internal/setmatrix/setmatrix.go
index b124f9db8e..d4d2a96ef6 100644
--- a/libnetwork/internal/setmatrix/setmatrix.go
+++ b/libnetwork/internal/setmatrix/setmatrix.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.19
+
 package setmatrix
 
 import (
diff --git a/libnetwork/network.go b/libnetwork/network.go
index 0fa3db8286..75c5de5cad 100644
--- a/libnetwork/network.go
+++ b/libnetwork/network.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.19
+
 package libnetwork
 
 import (
diff --git a/libnetwork/options/options.go b/libnetwork/options/options.go
index 4534f2c4f7..e70c484bf0 100644
--- a/libnetwork/options/options.go
+++ b/libnetwork/options/options.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.19
+
 // Package options provides a way to pass unstructured sets of options to a
 // component expecting a strongly-typed configuration structure.
 package options
diff --git a/libnetwork/service.go b/libnetwork/service.go
index 4bb903afab..f1d64e5996 100644
--- a/libnetwork/service.go
+++ b/libnetwork/service.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.19
+
 package libnetwork
 
 import (
diff --git a/testutil/helpers.go b/testutil/helpers.go
index f31ad27944..5c99e7bba4 100644
--- a/testutil/helpers.go
+++ b/testutil/helpers.go
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+// FIXME(thaJeztah): remove once we are a module; the go:build directive prevents go from downgrading language version to go1.16:
+//go:build go1.19
+
 package testutil // import "github.com/docker/docker/testutil"
 
 import (