Renovate normally doesn't require to make changes in other files. <br />It supports many package files, and detects them automatically. <br />It parses them, and finds the dependencies without needing any change. <br />But, for package files which is not supported by Renovate, a regular expression<br />is needed inside the file to let Renovate know where to look while parsing the file. <br />As far as I know, there is no other way than adding a new line to the file.<br /><br />We are also using Renovate the same way with bb files as well.&nbsp;<br /><br />We have got a lot of projects, and potential projects that have several different <br />dependencies. They are hosted in different repositories, and the idea is to update <br />their dependencies (or not it depends on the project) regularly, and do it automatically.<br />Like I said, with the package files that Renovate supports such as npm, Dockerfiles, etc. it is easy to do,<br />but for our case we need to modify the json file with an added comment. For this reason, Yaml files are<br />an ideal solution for us.