`dependabot.yml` can be configured to ignore/accept certain type of
updates:
https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuration-options-for-the-dependabot.yml-file
GitHub Actions workflow (`build.yml`) can be adapted to add/update a file
along with the version update.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 6:19 PM Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>
wrote:

> One other thing. We have gotten in the habit of creating an “umbrella”
> Jira issue to capture dependency changes within a release. We need to
> ensure whatever is committed by Dependabot is also captured.
>
> Ralph
>
> > On Dec 2, 2022, at 10:05 AM, Matt Sicker <m...@musigma.org> wrote:
> >
> > This definitely looks like an interesting idea! Minor updates should
> patch fairly painlessly, and we can form a list of dependencies over time
> that shouldn’t auto-update.
> >
> >> On Dec 2, 2022, at 7:10 AM, Volkan Yazıcı <vol...@yazi.ci> wrote:
> >>
> >> In the context of LOG4J2-3628 (replacing `maven-changes-plugin`), I am
> >> overhauling the `log4j-tools` project. I have done something, if I may
> say,
> >> A-W-E-S-O-M-E, which I would like to repeat for Log4j too at some point:
> >> https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j-tools/pull/5
> >>
> >> What is exactly happening in this PR? dependabot creates a PR for a
> >> dependency update, CI executes the tests, tests succeed, CI merges the
> PR,
> >> and publishes the built SNAPSHOT artifact. No more manual dependency
> >> updates!
> >
>
>

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