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fix(dependabot): stop the third-party group swallowing the other groups - #5
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Dependabot puts a dependency in every group whose patterns match it, not just the first, so the catch-all "*" also collected every Microsoft/System and own package. Whenever any third-party package had an update, the resulting superset PR replaced the narrower group PRs. Exclude the other groups' patterns from third-party and correct the comment that said ordering prevented this. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Dependabot puts a dependency in every group whose patterns match it, not just the first. The run log says so directly: "EarthCountriesInfo … is a member of the following groups: own-packages, third-party". The catch-all
third-partygroup ("*") therefore also collected every package meant for the narrower groups. Whenever a real third-party package had an update in the same run, the third-party PR became a superset and Dependabot closed the narrower PR as superseded.Seen in practice: SMSwitch #22 replaced #21. GeoIpServices #5, EmailSwitch #9 and MongoDbTokenManager #6 were all labelled "third-party" but carried Microsoft and own-package bumps.
This PR:
exclude-patternstothird-party:Meyn.Utilities,MongoDbService,PublicKeyUtils,Microsoft.*,System.*, i.e. the patterns of the other groups in this file,No package versions change.
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