Using dependabot for poetry managed python project with requirements.txt export

[ajstewart]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Feature description

Hi, I have a few repos were the python project is managed with poetry, however because of some specific CI deployments a requirements.txt is also generated (usually as a pre-commit hook) which some deployments then use instead of using poetry. Could also have different variants, e.g. tests-requirements.txt.

Now when dependabot opens PRs it only updates the pyproject.toml and poetry.lock files, and doesn't touch the requirements files, even if I place these in a different directory - which I thought could have been a solution. So I end up having to go into the PR to update the requirements.txt files before merging. I do see in the insights menu that dependabot recognises the .txt files but doesn't do anything with them.

I've searched a lot to try and find a solution, all I could come across was this old issue: #3458 that I believe is asking the same thing.

Of course there is the question of why use poetry in this case, but ignoring that, I wondered if I'm missing something that would make this possible or if it's currently a feature that just isn't there?