maxMajorIncrement does not work

[sjedlick]

How are you running Renovate?

Self-hosted Renovate

Which platform you running Renovate on?

GitLab (.com or self-hosted)

Which version of Renovate are you using?

42.92.5

Please tell us more about your question or problem

I see the following line in the log.
DEBUG: Skipping <packagename> because major increment 8981 exceeds maxMajorIncrement 500

The <packagename> is referenced in my .gitlab-ci.yml

To avoid this I configured the following in my renovate.json5 :

      description: 'Automatic major updates for gitlab-ci.yml references',
      matchFileNames: [
        '.gitlab-ci.yml',
      ],
      matchUpdateTypes: [
        'major',
        'minor',
        'patch',
        'pin',
        'digest',
      ],
      automerge: true,
      maxMajorIncrement: 10000,

But unfortunately this does not work.

Are there any hints ?

Thank you and best regards
Swen

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