diff -r db4911b0c721 -r 445e01aede7e vendor/github.com/spf13/viper/internal/encoding/ini/map_utils.go
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/vendor/github.com/spf13/viper/internal/encoding/ini/map_utils.go	Tue Aug 23 22:39:43 2022 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+package ini
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/spf13/cast"
+)
+
+// THIS CODE IS COPIED HERE: IT SHOULD NOT BE MODIFIED
+// AT SOME POINT IT WILL BE MOVED TO A COMMON PLACE
+// deepSearch scans deep maps, following the key indexes listed in the
+// sequence "path".
+// The last value is expected to be another map, and is returned.
+//
+// In case intermediate keys do not exist, or map to a non-map value,
+// a new map is created and inserted, and the search continues from there:
+// the initial map "m" may be modified!
+func deepSearch(m map[string]interface{}, path []string) map[string]interface{} {
+	for _, k := range path {
+		m2, ok := m[k]
+		if !ok {
+			// intermediate key does not exist
+			// => create it and continue from there
+			m3 := make(map[string]interface{})
+			m[k] = m3
+			m = m3
+			continue
+		}
+		m3, ok := m2.(map[string]interface{})
+		if !ok {
+			// intermediate key is a value
+			// => replace with a new map
+			m3 = make(map[string]interface{})
+			m[k] = m3
+		}
+		// continue search from here
+		m = m3
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+// flattenAndMergeMap recursively flattens the given map into a new map
+// Code is based on the function with the same name in tha main package.
+// TODO: move it to a common place
+func flattenAndMergeMap(shadow map[string]interface{}, m map[string]interface{}, prefix string, delimiter string) map[string]interface{} {
+	if shadow != nil && prefix != "" && shadow[prefix] != nil {
+		// prefix is shadowed => nothing more to flatten
+		return shadow
+	}
+	if shadow == nil {
+		shadow = make(map[string]interface{})
+	}
+
+	var m2 map[string]interface{}
+	if prefix != "" {
+		prefix += delimiter
+	}
+	for k, val := range m {
+		fullKey := prefix + k
+		switch val.(type) {
+		case map[string]interface{}:
+			m2 = val.(map[string]interface{})
+		case map[interface{}]interface{}:
+			m2 = cast.ToStringMap(val)
+		default:
+			// immediate value
+			shadow[strings.ToLower(fullKey)] = val
+			continue
+		}
+		// recursively merge to shadow map
+		shadow = flattenAndMergeMap(shadow, m2, fullKey, delimiter)
+	}
+	return shadow
+}