Dependency Graph dependents are wrong

[jasonkarns]

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I have a package that I'm looking to retire. I took a quick glance at the Dependents of the package from github's dependency graph: https://github.com/nodenv/devutil/network/dependents

It is listing a few other projects in the same org that have removed their dependency on the devutil project years ago. Why are those projects still being listed as Dependents? I realize that time is probably not the best metric; I assume git tags or the publishing of a GitHub Release is probably the trigger that causes the dependent rescan? Regardless, many of those dependents have had multiple commits to main, tags and releases since removing the devutil dependency. And yet still they show as devutil Dependents. What gives?

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