Support lein-parent as a dependency for clojure projects

[skaasten]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

Recognize parent-project as a dependency and check for updates on that version.

Lein-parent allows dependencies to be inherited from another project.

Did you already have any implementation ideas?

Possibly update the logic in https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/blob/master/lib/manager/leiningen/extract.ts#L142 to look for the :parent-project key and add that as a dependency to be checked.

I could take a stab at implementing myself.

[rarkins]

Can you create an example repository to demonstrate what you mean? I assume the parent project is within the same repo?

[skaasten]

Technically the parent-project can be in the same repo, but I think it would only be necessary to support external parents, such as this example.

[rarkins]

So is it the 4.0.0 that you expect to get updated?

[skaasten]

Yes, that's correct.

[skaasten]

Let me know if there's any more information needed to prioritize.

[rarkins]

This would be the file that needs changing: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/blob/master/lib/manager/leiningen/extract.ts

[HonkingGoose]

@skaasten do you still want to work on this? We could assign you to this issue, so that we know you would be working on it. But feel free to refuse, no pressure! 😄

[skaasten]

@skaasten do you still want to work on this? We could assign you to this issue, so that we know you would be working on it. But feel free to refuse, no pressure! 😄

😄 I have a work-around, so we can close this if no-one else is asking for it.