I have started using Dependabot in place of Compathelper for my packages. It tries adding compat bounds for tests (and docs if applicable). I am wondering if this is good practice — yes, I can see the value in it, but at the same time it increases maintenance burden. Also, can this feature of depe…

You have told dependabot that you have julia projects in the root directory, in docs/ and in test/ using the directories keyword (see here ). If you don’t want compat updates for docs/ and test/ (and don’t use workspaces) you should be able to just remove those from directories. Most of this is expla…

Thanks, but I get the impression that if I have [workspace], then merely / in directories: makes dependabot submit PRs for subprojects. What I (may) want is keep using workspaces, but not have dependabot submit PRs for subprojects. (I see now that this is an open question , haven’t seen this when I…

Yes, if you use workspaces it is probably not so easy, but I would say having correct compat bounds in test/ and docs/ is good practice anyway.

[image] JoshuaLampert: if you use workspaces it is probably not so easy I am now wondering if it is possible, easy or not.

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Check out PSA: GitHub Dependabot now supports Julia - #16 by Eben60 and the discussion in Does it make sense to define compat bounds in the test/Project.toml?

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