Dependabot and Renovate shows wrong changelog info
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Many projects use dependabot to manage version updates of dependencies. It helps them to keep up to date with new versions, but also to understand what changed between versions. When a new version is available, a pull request with the related change is created. It's body (i.e. description) contains a changelog and list of commits between the different versions. For spotless-maven-plugin this does not work correctly, because it uses the changelog and commits of the root project.
For example https://github.com/camunda-cloud/zeebe/pull/8480 shows that it updates spotless-maven-plugin from 2.17.7 to 2.18.0, but the changelog shows the changes of the root project up to version `2.18.0`, instead of the changes of the maven-plugin. In addition, its shows the wrong changelog as source:
> Sourced from [spotless-maven-plugin's changelog](https://github.com/diffplug/spotless/blob/main/CHANGES.md)
Looking at the [dependabot issues about changelog](https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+changelog), this seems to be a common problem. However, it also looks like the dependabot team does not intend to change anything for it. So, I think spotless should improve its setup to correct dependabot's failure to deal with this, because it would help existing users of spotless, to learn about the changes in new versions.
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