Update error: Directory <poetry path dependency> does not exist

[MatejKastak]

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Package ecosystem

pip (poetry)

Package manager version

1.4.0

Language version

Python 3.10

Manifest location and content before the Dependabot update

https://github.com/MatejKastak/yls/blob/master/pyproject.toml

dependabot.yml content

https://github.com/MatejKastak/yls/blob/master/.github/dependabot.yml

Updated dependency

No response

What you expected to see, versus what you actually saw

Hello and thanks for dependabot 🙂

I tried to integrate dependabot into new repository, where I have one main project and two sub-projects. Dependabot works well for the two sub-projects but it fails to update dependencies in the main project. I am working in my fork of the original repository.

Relevant part of the logs:

updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> Error processing pytest-asyncio (Dependabot::SharedHelpers::HelperSubprocessFailed)
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> Directory plugins/yls-yara does not exist
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/python/lib/dependabot/python/update_checker/poetry_version_resolver.rb:349:in `run_poetry_command'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/python/lib/dependabot/python/update_checker/poetry_version_resolver.rb:99:in `block (2 levels) in fetch_latest_resolvable_version_string'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/common/lib/dependabot/shared_helpers.rb:181:in `with_git_configured'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/python/lib/dependabot/python/update_checker/poetry_version_resolver.rb:91:in `block in fetch_latest_resolvable_version_string'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/common/lib/dependabot/shared_helpers.rb:49:in `block in in_a_temporary_directory'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/common/lib/dependabot/shared_helpers.rb:49:in `chdir'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/common/lib/dependabot/shared_helpers.rb:49:in `in_a_temporary_directory'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/python/lib/dependabot/python/update_checker/poetry_version_resolver.rb:90:in `fetch_latest_resolvable_version_string'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/python/lib/dependabot/python/update_checker/poetry_version_resolver.rb:62:in `latest_resolvable_version'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/python/lib/dependabot/python/update_checker.rb:42:in `latest_resolvable_version'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/common/lib/dependabot/update_checkers/base.rb:74:in `preferred_resolvable_version'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/common/lib/dependabot/update_checkers/base.rb:260:in `preferred_version_resolvable_with_unlock?'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/common/lib/dependabot/update_checkers/base.rb:252:in `numeric_version_can_update?'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/common/lib/dependabot/update_checkers/base.rb:202:in `version_can_update?'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/common/lib/dependabot/update_checkers/base.rb:44:in `can_update?'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/dependabot-updater/lib/dependabot/updater/operations/update_all_versions.rb:282:in `requirements_to_unlock'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/dependabot-updater/lib/dependabot/updater/operations/update_all_versions.rb:90:in `check_and_create_pull_request'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/dependabot-updater/lib/dependabot/updater/operations/update_all_versions.rb:61:in `check_and_create_pr_with_error_handling'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/dependabot-updater/lib/dependabot/updater/operations/update_all_versions.rb:27:in `block in perform'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/dependabot-updater/lib/dependabot/updater/operations/update_all_versions.rb:27:in `each'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/dependabot-updater/lib/dependabot/updater/operations/update_all_versions.rb:27:in `perform'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/dependabot-updater/lib/dependabot/updater.rb:70:in `run'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/dependabot-updater/lib/dependabot/update_files_command.rb:36:in `perform_job'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> /home/dependabot/dependabot-updater/lib/dependabot/base_command.rb:52:in `run'
updater | 2023/03/28 10:43:02 ERROR <job_634741690> bin/update_files.rb:23:in `<main>'

It always fails with the Directory .* does not exist error message, even though locally the path dependencies work as expected. Plus they are also working in Github actions when testing the PRs for example.

I am not familiar with ruby and project architecture that much, but there seems to be additional information that we unfortunately don't see in the logs (source_code).

I tried using relative paths, default paths (without ./ prefix) that poetry generated into pyproject.toml.
I tried to rename the directory from pytest-yls to pytest_yls to see if the dash is not problematic.
I tried to use completely different directory plugins/yls-yara (this is in logs above)

Can you point me into a right direction on how to debug this issue, please?

Hopefully, I am not missing something obvious and this will be useful for others.

Native package manager behavior

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Images of the diff or a link to the PR, issue, or logs

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Smallest manifest that reproduces the issue

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[jeffwidman]

Thanks for asking for debugging pointers, rather than just asking us to figure it out.

I just rewrote the README earlier this week to try to clarify the debugging instructions: https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core#debugging-problems

If you spin through that, you should be able to reproduce the problems locally and also see any output from poetry and even drop debugger statements in at any point.

Does that help?