Drop root go.mod dependencies from dependabot #163
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In order to use a library, users must upgrade their dependencies to be at least as up-to-date as those listed in the library's `go.mod`. As @abhinav pointed out, using dependabot to then keep our dependencies up-to-date all the time will cause any users of this library to have to keep theirs up-to-date all the time as well, when this isn't strictly necessary due to Go's heavy backwards compatibility culture. Remove the section referring to the root's `go.mod` so that we can instead only upgrade dependencies when necessary to avoid too much churn with users of the library.
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In order to use a Go library, users must upgrade their dependencies to be at least as up-to-date as those listed in the library's
go.mod. As @abhinav pointed out, using dependabot to then keep our dependencies up-to-date all the time will cause any users of this library to have to keep theirs up-to-date all the time as well, when this isn't strictly necessary due to Go's heavy backwards compatibility culture.Remove the section referring to the root's
go.modso that we can instead only upgrade dependencies when necessary to avoid too much churn with users of the library.