deps.stale
Somebody shipped or retired the line this one waits on without going through ship, so the cached annotation still describes the old state.
What it means
Section titled “What it means”The (deps: …) annotation caches another line’s status and that line moved: derived data written once and read as current.
The mechanical pass reaches it: roadkeep lint --fix closes this one.
What closes it
Section titled “What closes it”roadkeep lint --fix— the annotation is recomputed from the files it caches