chore: disable major Go dependency updates in Renovate#94

carole-lavillonniere

Summary

Disables Renovate PRs for major Go module version bumps

Context

Major Go module upgrades require changing import paths throughout the source code (e.g. github.com/go-chi/chi → github.com/go-chi/chi/v5), which Renovate cannot do automatically. The resulting PRs only update go.mod/go.sum but leave the source code on the old import paths, making them incomplete and misleading (e.g. #86).

Disabling these makes major upgrades an intentional manual process, which they have to be anyway.

nit: I guess we could keep the groupName if we want to toggle it back (in case CVE handling requires it)

chore: disable major Go dependency updates in Renovate …

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Major Go module version bumps require import path changes throughout the source code, which Renovate cannot do automatically. Disable these PRs to avoid noise from incomplete updates.

carole-lavillonniere marked this pull request as ready for review April 9, 2026 12:59

carole-lavillonniere requested review from dfangl, dominikschubert and joe4dev as code owners April 9, 2026 12:59

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fix(deps): update go dependencies (major) (major) #93

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skyrpex deleted the chore/disable-major-go-deps-renovate branch April 23, 2026 13:50

                     "matchManagers": ["gomod"],
                     "excludePackageNames": ["go"],
                     "matchUpdateTypes": ["major"],
-                    "groupName": "Go dependencies (major)"

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chore: disable major Go dependency updates in Renovate#94