The version cron updates docker image tags and repository refs, and tests/external/update covers docker, addons and repository. Neither sees a version inside an Ansible task variable, and dependabot reads pyproject.toml rather than roles/. A pin set once therefore froze and nothing thawed it: backup-docker-to-local has not moved since it was written, and the automtu pin one commit back would have gone the same way.
utils/update/pip mirrors the docker module: collect the pins, ask PyPI, rewrite in place. Only exact == pins are collected, because a range or a VCS reference states an intent an updater must not overrule. The external check warns rather than fails, like its docker sibling, so a slow PyPI cannot redden a run and a release the repository has deliberately not taken is not a regression.
The cron job is the docker job with one script swapped, so a changed pin arrives as its own PR under update/pip-pins.
Executed: the collector finds both pins in the repository; a synthetic file rewrites from 1.0.0 to 1.1.1 with the indent, quoting and neighbouring line untouched; automtu==1.0.0 would be reported while a bare name and a git+ reference are passed over.
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