Gomod dependency updates type are now patch (where digest before)

[aerialls]

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Hello,
Not sure this is a bug but I found a change of behavior introduced in 37.327.1 using the gomod manager. Updates from the module google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc are found of type patch as of before version 37.327.1, the type digest was returned.

A full working repository is available at https://github.com/aerialls/renovate-gomod. I've also attached in the README the log from both versions to highlight the change of updateType

Logs (if relevant)

37.327.0

Check the updateType.

DEBUG: Branch summary (repository=api-gateway/test)
       "cacheModified": undefined,
       "baseBranches": [{"branchName": "master", "sha": "d3b2a5c7e83004dc75ef21de93d6e95e618e15c4"}],
       "branches": [],
       "defaultBranch": "master",
       "inactiveBranches": ["renovate/google.golang.org-genproto-googleapis-rpc-digest"]
DEBUG: branches info extended (repository=api-gateway/test)
       "branchesInformation": [
         {
           "branchName": "renovate/google.golang.org-genproto-googleapis-rpc-digest",
           "prNo": null,
           "prTitle": "chore(deps): update google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc digest to 6275950",
           "result": "no-work",
           "upgrades": [
             {
               "datasource": "go",
               "depName": "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc",
               "displayPending": "",
               "fixedVersion": "v0.0.0-20240506185236-b8a5c65736ae",
               "currentVersion": "v0.0.0-20240506185236-b8a5c65736ae",
               "currentValue": "v0.0.0-20240506185236-b8a5c65736ae",
               "currentDigest": "b8a5c65736ae",
               "newValue": "v0.0.0-20240506185236-b8a5c65736ae",
               "newDigest": "62759503f4344226051f4e24858a7517e45b4ae6",
               "packageFile": "go.mod",
               "updateType": "digest",
               "packageName": "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc"
             }
           ]
         }
       ]

37.327.1

Check the updateType.

DEBUG: Branch summary (repository=api-gateway/test)
       "cacheModified": undefined,
       "baseBranches": [{"branchName": "master", "sha": "d3b2a5c7e83004dc75ef21de93d6e95e618e15c4"}],
       "branches": [],
       "defaultBranch": "master",
       "inactiveBranches": ["renovate/google.golang.org-genproto-googleapis-rpc-0.x"]
DEBUG: branches info extended (repository=api-gateway/test)
       "branchesInformation": [
         {
           "branchName": "renovate/google.golang.org-genproto-googleapis-rpc-0.x",
           "prNo": null,
           "prTitle": "chore(deps): update module google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc to v0.0.0-20240509183442-62759503f434",
           "result": "no-work",
           "upgrades": [
             {
               "datasource": "go",
               "depName": "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc",
               "displayPending": "",
               "fixedVersion": "v0.0.0-20240506185236-b8a5c65736ae",
               "currentVersion": "v0.0.0-20240506185236-b8a5c65736ae",
               "currentValue": "v0.0.0-20240506185236-b8a5c65736ae",
               "currentDigest": "b8a5c65736ae",
               "newValue": "v0.0.0-20240509183442-62759503f434",
               "newVersion": "v0.0.0-20240509183442-62759503f434",
               "newDigest": "62759503f434",
               "packageFile": "go.mod",
               "updateType": "patch",
               "packageName": "google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc"
             }
           ]
         }
       ]

[rarkins]

Converted to bug report: #29034