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Dependabot proposed windows-core 0.62.2 → 0.100.0 on its own in #642. It is not mergeable, and no rebase of it ever will be, so this stops it coming back every Monday.

Why the bump cannot be merged

windows-rs versions its support crates on their own lines, and they had drifted badly — core 0.62.2, implement 0.60.2, interface 0.59.3, result 0.4.1, link 0.2.1. 0.100.0 realigns that entire layer onto one number. The generated-bindings crates above it did not follow: windows is still 0.62.2, windows-sys 0.61.2.

We do not depend on windows-core independently. crates/app/Cargo.toml declares it only so the copy that windows already pulls in is nameable from our own crate root, because #[implement] expands to absolute ::windows_core:: paths. The comment at that dependency already described this failure:

Pinning the same 0.62 keeps one copy in the graph; a mismatched one would compile into a different IUnknownImpl and the sink would no longer satisfy the interface.

Which is what the Windows job reported on #642. IMMNotificationClient comes from windows 0.62 and implements windows-core 0.62's Interface, while #[implement] expanded against windows-core 0.100's traits — so the DefaultDeviceWatcher sink added in #627 no longer satisfied IUnknownImpl.

MSRV is not the obstacle, incidentally: windows-core 0.100 wants edition 2024 / rust 1.95 and the toolchain is pinned at 1.98.0.

Why ignore rather than a group

A group cannot express "these two move together". It still opens a PR when only one of its members has a release, so grouping windows with windows-core would have produced #642 unchanged, with a group name attached.

windows is deliberately left out of the rule. The day it offers a major is the day the pair can move, and that PR is the cue to bump both in one commit.

What the rule reaches, and what it does not

It reaches further than "majors only" suggests. For a 0.x crate Dependabot treats the minor position as the breaking one, so windows-core 0.62 → 0.63 is a semver-major update here just as 0.62 → 0.100 is. Every 0.x bump of that shape in this repository has arrived as its own PR rather than inside cargo-patch-and-minor — quick-xml 0.41 → 0.42, lofty 0.24 → 0.25, wasapi 0.23 → 0.24, resvg 0.47 → 0.48 — while #374, a uuid patch, says in its own title that it landed in the group.

An earlier revision of this description claimed the opposite: that a lone 0.63 would be classified minor and slip into the group. That was wrong, and the repository's own history is what corrects it.

What the rule genuinely does not do is verify anything. It suppresses a proposal; it does not enforce the invariant. A desync arriving in Cargo.lock by any other route — a hand edit, a transitive resolution — still surfaces as a wall of trait errors on the Windows job rather than as a named failure. Enforcing it means an offline Cargo.lock check in CI, in the shape of check-toolchain-pin.py and check-sources.py, which is not in this PR.

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This PR also happens to be the first to run the Rust jobs on a tree carrying all three merged dependency bumps (#640, #641, #643): the run that had them was cancelled by the Flatpak refresh merge, and the one after it skipped the Rust job on paths. Linux is already confirmed by hand on e50b39ed — fmt clean, clippy -D warnings at 0, 609 app + 319 core tests.

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    • La gestion des mises à jour des composants Windows a été ajustée afin de préserver la compatibilité entre les versions associées.
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windows-core is not an independent dependency: crates/app/Cargo.toml
declares it only so the copy `windows` already pulls in is nameable from
our own crate root, because `#[implement]` expands to absolute
`::windows_core::` paths. Both names have to resolve to the same version —
a mismatched one compiles the generated sink against a different
`IUnknownImpl` than the interface it implements.

windows-rs versions its support crates on their own lines, and 0.100.0
renumbered that whole layer (windows-core, -implement, -interface,
-result, -link) while the generated-bindings crates above it stayed put:
`windows` is still 0.62.2. Dependabot saw a newer windows-core and
proposed it alone in #642, which failed the Windows job with exactly the
symptom the dependency's own comment had predicted — the
DefaultDeviceWatcher sink of #627 no longer satisfying IUnknownImpl.

A group would not have helped: it still opens a PR when only one of its
members has a release. So majors are ignored for windows-core instead.
`windows` is deliberately left alone — the day it offers a major is the
day the pair can move, and that PR is the cue to bump both in one commit.
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Review asked for semver-minor to be added to the windows-core rule so a
lone 0.63 could not slip through. It cannot: for a 0.x crate Dependabot
treats the minor position as the breaking one, and every 0.x bump of that
shape in this repository has arrived as its own PR rather than inside
cargo-patch-and-minor — quick-xml 0.41 -> 0.42, lofty 0.24 -> 0.25,
wasapi 0.23 -> 0.24, resvg 0.47 -> 0.48. The counter-example is #374,
a uuid patch, whose title says it landed in the group. So the existing
rule already reaches 0.63.

Adding semver-minor would suppress nothing extra, and would risk holding
this name back while `windows` moved — the same desync, mirrored. Saying
so at the rule itself, because the question will be asked again.
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@InstaZDLL Merci pour la clarification. Je réponds au dernier commentaire uniquement, car je ne dispose pas de toute la conversation précédente.

La configuration vérifiée confirme que version-update:semver-major est la seule règle ignorée pour windows-core. Le commentaire aux lignes 57–65 documente explicitement la classification des mises à jour 0.x et le risque de désynchronisation inverse.

Dans ces conditions, ajouter semver-minor ne couvre pas un cas supplémentaire et peut bloquer une mise à jour coordonnée avec windows. Je retire donc cette remarque.

Le contrôle offline de Cargo.lock reste une amélioration distincte pour détecter une désynchronisation introduite hors Dependabot. Souhaitez-vous que je crée une issue de suivi pour ce contrôle CI ?


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@coderabbitai Correction: your original comment was right and your retraction was not. I argued you into withdrawing a valid finding, which is on me.

My reasoning was that Dependabot classifies a 0.x minor-position bump as semver-major, evidenced by this repository never having grouped one into cargo-patch-and-minor. That evidence concerns groups; the conclusion concerned ignore, and the two keys are not obliged to classify alike. GitHub documents SemVer as plain major.minor.patch, which makes 0.62 -> 0.63 a minor, and nothing authoritative settles the 0.x case. I presented an inference as a fact.

Worse, the half you did not object to was the more dangerous one. Leaving windows out of the rule meant that under the documented reading a coordinated 0.63 would ignore windows-core and sweep windows into cargo-patch-and-minor alone — desynchronising the pair in the other direction, which is #642 with the two crates swapped. The guard would have produced the defect it was written to prevent.

#652 holds both names back from semver-major and semver-minor alike, which is correct under either reading, so the classification question no longer decides anything. Patches stay automatic and are safe by construction: both names remain inside 0.62.x, which Cargo unifies onto one version regardless.

On your offer: yes, please open a follow-up issue for the offline Cargo.lock check. It is the part that would verify the invariant rather than suppress a proposal, and it belongs outside this change.

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## Résumé

Ajouter un contrôle CI hors ligne qui vérifie l'invariant de version entre `windows` et `windows-core` dans `Cargo.lock`.

## Motivation

Les règles Dependabot réduisent les propositions de mise à jour non coordonnées, mais elles ne détectent pas une désynchronisation créée par une autre voie de résolution ou de mise à jour des dépendances.

Le crate `src-tauri/crates/app` dépend explicitement de `windows-core` afin que le code généré par `#[implement]` utilise la même version que `windows`. Des versions résolues différentes peuvent provoquer des échecs d'implémentation d'interfaces Windows.

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@InstaZDLL Merci pour la correction détaillée. Vous avez raison : j’ai traité une inférence sur groups comme une garantie applicable à ignore. Ma rétraction était incorrecte.

J’ai créé l’issue de suivi : #653. Elle définit un contrôle CI hors ligne de Cargo.lock pour vérifier que windows et windows-core restent sur la même version résolue.

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