Dependabot is assigning wrong label to PR's
Borewit opened this issue · comments
Dependabot is assigning the wrong label to PR's:
I have not changed the original blue "dependencies" label:
I have notices this behavior on multiple repositories.
Screenshots originating from: https://github.com/Borewit/strtok3
@Borewit oh looks like dependabot has re-used the label as it matches *dependency* but should prioritise an existing dependencies label. Will take a look.
oh looks like dependabot has re-used the label as it matches dependency but should prioritise an existing dependencies label.
That is indeed what it looks like, thanks.
@Borewit sorry for dropping this, you can work around this by setting your default labels to something specific: https://dependabot.com/docs/config-file/#default_labels
This will override the default behaviour where dependabot tries to find an existing label named *dependenc* and use that instead of creating a dependencies label. In your case it looks like this label also exists so we should be prioritising that over the regex match. Will look into fixing that but you can work around it by specifying default_labels using the config file.
@Borewit sorry for dropping this, you can work around this by setting your default labels to something
I am aware of the workaround, yet the current behavior is wrong.
@Borewit I've shipped a fix for this to always pick an existing dependencies label if one exists, which should fix the issue for your repo, otherwise fall back to a label matching /*dependenc./i.