Introduce Bazel Steward - a tool for keeping dependencies up to date in Bazel

.github/workflows/bazel-steward.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+name: Bazel Steward
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 12 * * *'
+
+jobs:
+  bazel-steward:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - uses: VirtusLab/bazel-steward@latest

.gitignore

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 *.class
 *.log
 bazel-*
+!bazel-steward.yaml
 .idea
 *.iml
 *.pyc

WORKSPACE

@@ -9,18 +9,34 @@ http_archive(
     name = "bazel_skylib",
     sha256 = "2ef429f5d7ce7111263289644d233707dba35e39696377ebab8b0bc701f7818e",
     type = "tar.gz",
-    url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-skylib/releases/download/{}/bazel-skylib.{}.tar.gz".format(skylib_version, skylib_version),
+    url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-skylib/releases/download/0.8.0/bazel-skylib.0.8.0.tar.gz",
 )
 
 load("//dependencies/google_protobuf:google_protobuf.bzl", "google_protobuf")
 
 google_protobuf()
 
-load("@greyhound//central-sync:dependencies.bzl", "rules_jvm_external", "rules_kotlin", "vaticle_bazel_distribution")
+load("@greyhound//central-sync:dependencies.bzl", "rules_kotlin", "vaticle_bazel_distribution")
 
 rules_kotlin()
 
-rules_jvm_external()
+RULES_JVM_EXTERNAL_TAG = "5.2"
+RULES_JVM_EXTERNAL_SHA ="f86fd42a809e1871ca0aabe89db0d440451219c3ce46c58da240c7dcdc00125f"
+
+http_archive(
+    name = "rules_jvm_external",
+    strip_prefix = "rules_jvm_external-%s" % RULES_JVM_EXTERNAL_TAG,
+    sha256 = RULES_JVM_EXTERNAL_SHA,
+    url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external/releases/download/%s/rules_jvm_external-%s.tar.gz" % (RULES_JVM_EXTERNAL_TAG, RULES_JVM_EXTERNAL_TAG)
+)
+
+load("@rules_jvm_external//:repositories.bzl", "rules_jvm_external_deps")
+
+rules_jvm_external_deps()
+
+load("@rules_jvm_external//:setup.bzl", "rules_jvm_external_setup")
+
+rules_jvm_external_setup()
 
 load("@io_bazel_rules_kotlin//kotlin:kotlin.bzl", "kotlin_repositories", "kt_register_toolchains")
 
@@ -32,17 +48,6 @@ vaticle_bazel_distribution()
 
 load("@vaticle_bazel_distribution//maven:deps.bzl", "maven_artifacts_with_versions")
 
-RULES_JVM_EXTERNAL_TAG = "3.1"
-
-RULES_JVM_EXTERNAL_SHA = "e246373de2353f3d34d35814947aa8b7d0dd1a58c2f7a6c41cfeaff3007c2d14"
-
-http_archive(
-    name = "rules_jvm_external",
-    sha256 = RULES_JVM_EXTERNAL_SHA,
-    strip_prefix = "rules_jvm_external-%s" % RULES_JVM_EXTERNAL_TAG,
-    url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external/archive/%s.zip" % RULES_JVM_EXTERNAL_TAG,
-)
-
 load("//:third_party.bzl", "dependencies")
 
 dependencies()

central-sync/dependencies.bzl

@@ -16,11 +16,3 @@ def rules_kotlin():
         strip_prefix = "rules_kotlin-c2519b00299cff9df22267e8359784e9948dba67",
         sha256 = "1455f2ec4bf7ea12d2c90b0dfd6402553c3bb6cbc0271023e2e01ccdefb4a49a",
     )
-
-def rules_jvm_external():
-    http_archive(
-        name = "rules_jvm_external",
-        strip_prefix = "rules_jvm_external-3.2",
-        sha256 = "82262ff4223c5fda6fb7ff8bd63db8131b51b413d26eb49e3131037e79e324af",
-        url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external/archive/3.2.zip",
-    )