Track monorepo dependency updates

[lukasIO]

In a monorepo where my-package depends on my-dependency (both are packages within the same monorepo) what's the recommended way to ensure a new release to my-dependency also results in a new release for my-package with that updated dependency?

I have the dependencies configured in knope.toml using this guide. Using the bot currently and the Release packages PR only appears to release the ones that are explicitly tagged with changesets.

[dbanty]

Yeah right now Knope doesn't automatically do "maintenance releases" or anything. It only makes releases that have documented changes (like with changesets). So you have to flag a changeset with every package which should be released due to that change.

That's not to say we couldn't add such a feature, though. Would just need to figure out how it should work. In particular, what goes in the release notes for dependents and how the version is affected.

[lukasIO]

I think the option that changesets provides is quite good: https://github.com/changesets/changesets/blob/main/docs/config-file-options.md#updateinternaldependencies.

In line with this project it might be worth thinking about whether the scopes field should implicitly also serve as a "if something in the scope gets an update, this package should also get an update" – at least that was my first naive understanding of the scope field.

Here's an example of what changesets puts in the release notes:

the updated dependencies section makes sense to me