Dependabot is updating requirements.txt files in subfolders when only the directory option is set

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Is there an existing issue for this?

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Package ecosystem

pip

Package manager version

poetry^=1.8

Language version

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Manifest location and content before the Dependabot update

• /pyproject.toml
• /docs/requirements.txt (shouldn't be updated)
• /tests/requirements.txt (shouldn't be updated)

dependabot.yml content

---
version: 2
updates:
  - package-ecosystem: github-actions
    directory: /
    schedule:
      interval: weekly
    groups:
      gh-actions-dependencies:
        patterns: ['*']
    labels: [gh-actions, dependencies]
    commit-message:
      prefix: gh-actions
      include: scope
  - package-ecosystem: pip
    directory: /
    schedule:
      interval: weekly
    versioning-strategy: increase-if-necessary
    groups:
      python-dependencies:
        patterns: ['*']
    labels: [python, dependencies]
    commit-message:
      prefix: python-deps
      include: scope

Updated dependency

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What you expected to see, versus what you actually saw

I expect that only the pyproject.toml file is updated, but dependabot is updating the requirements files as well.

Native package manager behavior

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Smallest manifest that reproduces the issue

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