Merge requests being generated with incorrect or entirely missing dependency changes

[AdamJacobson]

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GitLab (.com or self-hosted)

Which version of Renovate are you using?

43.265.1

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I have repeatedly seen this issue happen in our org: Renovate MRs are created either completely missing the dependency upgrade that the title says they contain, or the version is much lower than the one in the title.

This often happens repeatedly with the same dependency. And since the MR in question doesn't change the target dependency, merging it does nothing and a new MR will be created with the same problem.

I've seen this happen with fog-aws a few times.

Other problem dependencies (Ruby gems for me)

• flipper-active_record
• flipper-ui
• rspec-rails
• rubocop
• rubocop-performance
• solargraph

Here's a specific example with the MR Update web-console from 4.2.1 to 4.3.0.

The diff of Gemfile.lock shows changes but none to web-console. It was suggested that maybe web-console was updated in a different MR, but it's actually still 4.2.1 on the main branch.

I'm not a system admin with access to the Renovate implementation in our org but I can try to provide more details or examples if needed.

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