Ignore provided-scope (Spark) dependencies in Dependabot (#1289)#1351
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Spark, Scala, and Spark's Jackson libs are declared `provided` in the poms — compiled against but not packaged into the Zingg jar. The Spark runtime (Databricks/EMR/etc.) supplies and patches them, so Dependabot PRs/alerts on these are noise. Ignore them; keep jackson-annotations (compile scope, shipped) since its alerts are real.
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Removed unnecessary comments and clarified configuration.
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Fixes #1289.
Zingg runs on top of a Spark cluster, so Spark, Scala, and the Jackson libraries Spark ships are declared
providedin the poms — we compile against them but don't package them into the Zingg jar. The runtime (Databricks/EMR/etc.) supplies and patches them, and we can't control which versions run, so Dependabot alerts on these are just noise. Until now we'd been silencing them one at a time with manual pom edits.This scopes
.github/dependabot.ymlto Maven — the old*value was actually invalid, so Dependabot had been rejecting the whole file — and ignores the provided-scope groups:org.apache.spark:*,org.scala-lang:*,jackson-core, andjackson-databind.jackson-annotationsis deliberately left in: it'scompilescope and actually shipped, so its alerts are real.Tested on a fork — the config went from rejected to valid, and Dependabot now runs Maven jobs with the new settings applied.
One caveat: this covers the directly-declared
provideddeps. Transitive libraries pulled in through Spark (netty, lz4, guava, …) surface under their own names, so they stay covered by the pom<exclusions>rather than this ignore list.