Dependabot fails on Julia PRs and ignores workspace compat
Dependabot fails on Julia PRs with a generic 'something went wrong' error, and workspace julia compat is not inherited by subprojects.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 25 September 2026 · last reported 28 September 2026
What's going wrong
Users of GitHub Dependabot for Julia packages reported that its automated pull requests sometimes stopped with a vague 'something went wrong' message, giving no reason for the failure and leaving them to retry by hand.
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