# Why is automerge failing

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-automerge-failing/32859>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [January 2, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-automerge-failing/32859 "2020-01-02T01:56:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![colintbowers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/colintbowers/32/8033_2.png) [@colintbowers](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/colintbowers)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-automerge-failing/32859/1 "2020-01-02T01:56:44Z")

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Hi all,

I’m trying to submit a minor version increment for my registered package [ForecastEval](https://github.com/colintbowers/ForecastEval.jl). Unfortunately automerge keeps failing. The PR to JuliaRegistries is [here](https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General/pull/7420).

Originally, I could see from the output that automerge was failing due to compat issues. Specifically, I hadn’t specified a version upper bound for some of the dependencies. However, now I think I have fixed those issues, and they no longer show up as errors in the automerge output, but automerge is still failing.

You can see the log files at the above link, but the relevant bit of output is:

```julia
ERROR: RegistryCI.AutoMerge.AutoMergeGuidelinesNotMet("The automerge guidelines were not met.")
Stacktrace:
 [1] #pull_request_build#90(::GitHub.OAuth2, ::Array{String,1}, ::String, ::String, ::Bool, ::String, ::typeof(RegistryCI.AutoMerge.pull_request_build), ::RegistryCI.AutoMerge.NewVersion, ::GitHub.PullRequest, ::String, ::GitHub.Repo) at /home/runner/.julia/packages/RegistryCI/roAff/src/AutoMerge/new-version.jl:172
 [2] #pull_request_build at /home/runner/.julia/packages/RegistryCI/roAff/src/AutoMerge/util.jl:0 [inlined]
 [3] #pull_request_build#106(::GitHub.OAuth2, ::Array{String,1}, ::String, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::String, ::typeof(RegistryCI.AutoMerge.pull_request_build), ::GitHub.PullRequest, ::String, ::GitHub.Repo, ::String) at /home/runner/.julia/packages/RegistryCI/roAff/src/AutoMerge/pull-requests.jl:84
 [4] #pull_request_build at ./none:0 [inlined]
 [5] #pull_request_build#103(::String, ::GitHub.OAuth2, ::Array{String,1}, ::String, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::typeof(RegistryCI.AutoMerge.pull_request_build), ::Int64, ::String, ::GitHub.Repo, ::String) at /home/runner/.julia/packages/RegistryCI/roAff/src/AutoMerge/pull-requests.jl:40
 [6] #pull_request_build at ./none:0 [inlined]
 [7] #run#18(::Bool, ::Bool, ::Day, ::Minute, ::Minute, ::Minute, ::String, ::Array{String,1}, ::Array{String,1}, ::Array{String,1}, ::String, ::Bool, ::Bool, ::typeof(RegistryCI.AutoMerge.run), ::Base.EnvDict, ::RegistryCI.AutoMerge.GitHubActions) at /home/runner/.julia/packages/RegistryCI/roAff/src/AutoMerge/public.jl:47
 [8] (::RegistryCI.AutoMerge.var"#kw##run")(::NamedTuple{(:merge_new_packages, :merge_new_versions, :new_package_waiting_period, :new_jll_package_waiting_period, :new_version_waiting_period, :new_jll_version_waiting_period, :registry, :authorized_authors, :suggest_onepointzero, :additional_statuses, :additional_check_runs),Tuple{Bool,Bool,Day,Minute,Minute,Minute,String,Array{String,1},Bool,Array{String,1},Array{String,1}}}, ::typeof(RegistryCI.AutoMerge.run), ::Base.EnvDict, ::RegistryCI.AutoMerge.GitHubActions) at ./none:0 (repeats 2 times)
 [9] top-level scope at none:1
##[error]Process completed with exit code 1.

```

Note, looking at the rest of the log-file, the only line that looks concerning is this one:

```julia
┌ Info: If it is a patch release, then it does not narrow the Julia compat range
│ meets_this_guideline = false
└ message = "A patch release is not allowed to narrow the supported ranges of Julia versions. The ranges have changed from Pkg.Types.VersionRange[VersionRange(\"0.7-1\")] (in 1.0.0) to 

```

EDIT: Alright, I’ve now got it saying this:

```julia
┌ Info: If it is a patch release, then it does not narrow the Julia compat range
│ meets_this_guideline = false
└ message = "A patch release is not allowed to narrow the supported ranges of Julia versions. The ranges have changed from Pkg.Types.VersionRange[VersionRange(\"0.7-1\")] (in 1.0.0) to Pkg.Types.VersionRange[VersionRange(\"0.7\"), VersionRange(\"1\")] (in 1.0.1)."

```

My compat line for julia is `julia = "0.7, 1"`. I’m assuming this violates something somehow…

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Colin

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**Author:** ![dilumaluthge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dilumaluthge/32/29283_2.png) [@dilumaluthge](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dilumaluthge)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-automerge-failing/32859/2 "2020-01-02T03:37:33Z")

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This is a bug in the General registry.

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**Author:** ![colintbowers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/colintbowers/32/8033_2.png) [@colintbowers](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/colintbowers)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-automerge-failing/32859/3 "2020-01-02T04:32:08Z")

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Understood, thanks for responding.