Dependabot proposes bogus bounds for Julia stdlibs
Dependabot proposes odd version bounds like less than 0.0.1 on Julia standard library dependencies.
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5 public reports · first reported 6 October 2026 · last reported 6 October 2026
What's going wrong
Dependabot, GitHub's automated dependency updater, sometimes opens pull requests that add strange version bounds such as "<0.0.1" to Julia standard library entries like LinearAlgebra, Printf, and Logging, even when a project's Project.toml only declares a broad compatibility such as "1".
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