feat: add the v1 composed release pipeline

[mairas]

Summary

Adds the v1 release pipeline from the interface plan (issue 49). A caller composes it from single-purpose workflows instead of switching parts of build-release.yml off. The legacy build-release.yml and publish-stable.yml stay unchanged for callers on @main.

Caller file	deb repository	npm or tag-only repository
main.yml	release-version → build-deb → stage-release → apt-publish unstable	release-version → stage-release
release.yml	apt-publish stable	publish-npm (next unit)

Changes

• release-version.yml: validates VERSION, computes the revision, and outputs the tags and the Debian version. A commit that already has a v<upstream>+N_pre tag reuses N, so re-running a main run completes that release instead of cutting a second one (the legacy workflow cuts N+1). It fails when the run is not on the default branch, and when a newer commit already carries a release tag.
• build-deb.yml release mode: passing revision switches on changelog generation, the +<distro>+<component> rename and an artifact upload; without it the workflow stays in check mode. All release inputs are optional in the interface; in release mode the package name, upstream version, APT distro and component, and maintainer name and email are required, and a partial set fails with the missing names. The changelog covers commits since the last stable tag reachable from HEAD. The local generate-changelog.sh and rename-packages.sh overrides keep their arguments.
• stage-release.yml: creates the pre-release and the draft with --target set to the built commit (issue 48), attaches packages when given an artifact, and deletes other drafts. It fails when a higher-version release exists or when a release with its tags targets another commit. A release for this commit is kept when complete and replaced when not (draft pre-release, missing assets). generate-release-notes.sh keeps its arguments.
• apt-publish.yml: one workflow for both channels with required apt-repository, apt-distro, apt-component and APT_REPO_PAT; the unstable channel also takes prerelease-tag. The dispatch payload is unchanged. Both channels require the release to carry assets. The stable channel skips pre-release events and requires a release event and a v<upstream>+<N> tag.
• Release notes name the APT host from apt-repository plus the distribution, channel and component, and link to the host page for setup. The two hosts use different key files (halos.gpg, hatlabs.gpg) and suite layouts (trixie-unstable main, unstable hatlabs), so install commands cannot be derived without per-host logic. This fixes hatlabs/shared-workflows issue 2 for v1 callers.
• Tests: step scripts are extracted from the workflows with yq and run with the runner's shell options (tests/lib/step.sh); the new workflows set defaults.run.shell: bash to match. tests/lib/fake-gh stores releases as JSON. Test files: release-version (revision, rerun, stale commit, VERSION validation), build-deb (validation, changelog, rename, overrides), stage-release (fresh, rerun, partial, other commit, newer release, draft cleanup, notes-only, failed create), apt-publish (channels, tag formats, assets).
• Examples: examples/deb main.yml and release.yml.

Verification

Canary halos-browser-trust PR 5, merged with the workflows pinned to an earlier commit of this branch:

Check	Result
main run 35212495555	tests, version, build-deb, stage-release, apt-publish all succeeded
revision	v0.1.0+3 after v0.1.0+2
releases	v0.1.0+3_pre and draft v0.1.0+3 targeting merge commit 482109c (legacy releases target main)
asset	halos-browser-trust_0.1.0-3_all+trixie+main.deb, same pattern as +2
package changelog	halos-browser-trust (0.1.0-3) unstable, wrapped commit subjects, maintainer Hat Labs <info@hatlabs.fi>
APT	apt.halos.fi repository_dispatch run for package-updated succeeded
workflow_dispatch on a non-default branch	version failed with "Releases are cut only from main"; later jobs skipped, nothing created
rerun of the main run	created v0.1.0+4 from the same commit; fixed in this PR

The canary ran an earlier commit of this branch. The review fixes changed the release-state logic, which has run only against the fake gh; halos-browser-trust PR 6 re-pins the canary to run it for real.

Not yet exercised: the stable channel of apt-publish.yml (publishing a draft), a hatlabs caller, rename-packages.sh and generate-changelog.sh overrides, a partial set of release inputs, and a notes-only release. The hatlabs deb and npm canaries in issue 55 cover the caller kinds.

Closes #52

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Changes

The pull request adds reusable workflows for release version calculation, Debian release builds, GitHub release staging, and APT publication. It also adds Debian example callers and tests for revision calculation.

Release pipeline

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Version calculation .github/workflows/release-version.yml, tests/release-version.test.sh	Calculates release revisions and tags from VERSION and existing tags. It reports release state through workflow outputs. The test suite covers the calculation scenarios.
Debian release build .github/workflows/build-deb.yml	Adds release-mode inputs, changelog generation, package renaming, package validation, and deb-packages artifact output.
Release staging .github/workflows/stage-release.yml	Downloads and validates optional .deb artifacts, generates notes, creates prereleases and draft stable releases, and removes other draft releases.
APT publication and callers .github/workflows/apt-publish.yml, examples/deb/.github/workflows/main.yml, examples/deb/.github/workflows/release.yml	Validates publication channels and stable release metadata, dispatches package-updated events, and connects the example workflows to the reusable pipeline.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant main.yml
  participant release-version.yml
  participant build-deb.yml
  participant stage-release.yml
  participant apt-publish.yml
  participant APTRepository
  main.yml->>release-version.yml: calculate release outputs
  main.yml->>build-deb.yml: build release package
  build-deb.yml-->>main.yml: return deb-packages artifact
  main.yml->>stage-release.yml: stage release with artifact and tags
  main.yml->>apt-publish.yml: publish unstable package-updated event
  apt-publish.yml->>APTRepository: dispatch repository payload

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8e0a5

Release recovery can be skipped after deleting a prerelease, while mutable workflow dependencies expose publishing credentials. Resolve both before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	Issue #52 implementation requirements are substantially present. The PR adds the four reusable workflows, release mode in build-deb.yml, Debian caller workflows, release outputs, default-branch vali…	Add automated tests for the remaining issue #52 scenarios. Cover notes-only and Debian staging, stable and unstable APT validation, missing assets and secrets, tag targeting, reruns, branch restrictions, both APT hosts, and equivalence with…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 1 files. (6 skipped: 6…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed workflows, Debian examples, release-version test, release notes, APT dispatch, and package build changes all support the release-pipeline objectives in issue #52. No unrelated product or r…
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding the v1 composed release pipeline.

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Explanation

Issue #52 implementation requirements are substantially present. The PR adds the four reusable workflows, release mode in build-deb.yml, Debian caller workflows, release outputs, default-branch validation, commit-targeted staging, draft cleanup, stable and unstable APT dispatch, asset checks, and local script hooks. The legacy workflow changes are not included in the reviewed change set. The automated coverage is incomplete. tests/release-version.test.sh covers six version-calculation cases, but the reviewed changes do not provide automated coverage for notes-only staging, stable publishing, missing assets or APT_REPO_PAT, tag targeting, branch-dispatch behavior, or canary equivalence required by issue #52.

Resolution

Add automated tests for the remaining issue #52 scenarios. Cover notes-only and Debian staging, stable and unstable APT validation, missing assets and secrets, tag targeting, reruns, branch restrictions, both APT hosts, and equivalence with the legacy release output.

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 1 files. (6 skipped: 6 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/apt-publish.yml:
- Line 94: Pin the listed release-workflow actions to full immutable commit SHAs
instead of mutable version tags, retaining each current version as a trailing
comment: update peter-evans/repository-dispatch in the workflow step identified
by that action, plus actions/checkout and actions/download-artifact in
stage-release and actions/checkout and actions/upload-artifact in build-deb.

In @.github/workflows/release-version.yml:
- Around line 121-123: Update the release decision flow around RELEASED and TAG
so a prerelease tag only sets due=false when gh release view "$TAG" confirms the
corresponding GitHub Release exists; use RELEASED solely to reuse the revision,
and allow downstream build and staging jobs to run when the release was deleted.

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• .github/workflows/apt-publish.yml
• .github/workflows/build-deb.yml
• .github/workflows/release-version.yml
• .github/workflows/stage-release.yml
• examples/deb/.github/workflows/main.yml
• examples/deb/.github/workflows/release.yml
• tests/release-version.test.sh

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Code Review Results

Scope: merge-base 34e25f1 → feat/v1-release-pipeline at 8e0a559 (7 files, +784)
Intent: Add the v1 composed release pipeline (release-version.yml, build-deb.yml release mode, stage-release.yml, apt-publish.yml) with tests and deb examples. CodeRabbit was rate-limited, so this review replaces it.
Mode: interactive (PR-first)

Reviewers: correctness, testing, maintainability, project-standards, api-contract, security, reliability, adversarial

• api-contract: four workflow_call interfaces frozen in v1
• security: APT_REPO_PAT, contents: write, caller data in shell
• reliability: release state split across jobs, reruns, partial failures
• adversarial: 784 lines that publish packages to APT

P1 -- High

#	File	Issue	Reviewer	Confidence	Route
1	.github/workflows/release-version.yml	Re-running an old main run after a newer commit was released gives the older code the next revision, and stage-release then deletes the newer draft.	adversarial	0.75	manual -> downstream-resolver

P2 -- Moderate

#	File	Issue	Reviewer	Confidence	Route
2	.github/workflows/release-version.yml	due: false on a commit with a _pre tag makes "Re-run all jobs" a green no-op after a failed draft creation or APT dispatch.	correctness, reliability, api-contract, testing	0.90	manual -> downstream-resolver
3	.github/workflows/stage-release.yml	Existing releases are accepted without checking their target commit; other drafts are deleted even when newer.	reliability	0.72	gated_auto -> review-fixer
4	.github/workflows/stage-release.yml	A failed asset upload leaves a draft _pre that later runs treat as released and then delete.	reliability	0.62	safe_auto -> review-fixer
5	.github/workflows/stage-release.yml	An empty artifact (e.g. a misspelled output reference) silently stages a notes-only release and still dispatches unstable.	adversarial	0.62	gated_auto -> downstream-resolver
6	.github/workflows/build-deb.yml	Maintainer inputs default to Hat Labs values, against AGENTS.md "Hat Labs-specific behaviour belongs in callers' inputs".	project-standards	0.80	gated_auto -> human
7	.github/workflows/build-deb.yml	Input validation, default changelog and rename have no tests.	testing	0.82	safe_auto -> review-fixer
8	.github/workflows/apt-publish.yml	Stable-channel checks have never run and have no tests.	testing	0.75	safe_auto -> review-fixer
9	.github/workflows/build-deb.yml	Container repos (packages in build/) get lintian on release builds for the first time.	adversarial, correctness	0.70	advisory -> human

P3 -- Low

#	File	Issue	Reviewer	Confidence	Route
10	.github/workflows/apt-publish.yml	version-pattern input would freeze an unused regex contract with capture-group numbering into v1.	maintainability, api-contract	0.65	gated_auto -> human
11	.github/workflows/stage-release.yml	Draft cleanup pipes gh release list into while without pipefail; a failed listing is ignored.	reliability	0.65	safe_auto -> review-fixer
12	.github/workflows/build-deb.yml	Second package lookup duplicates the first only to feed the upload.	maintainability	0.72	safe_auto -> review-fixer
13	.github/workflows/stage-release.yml	Assets looked up three times; the two create steps duplicate each other.	maintainability	0.62	safe_auto -> review-fixer
14	.github/workflows/build-deb.yml, stage-release.yml	Comments reference build-release.yml, which will be deleted.	maintainability	0.75	safe_auto -> review-fixer
15	examples/deb/.github/workflows/main.yml	Workflow-level contents: write gives the tests job a write token.	security	0.62	safe_auto -> review-fixer
16	examples/deb/.github/workflows/main.yml	APT distro and component repeated across jobs.	maintainability	0.60	manual -> human
17	tests/release-version.test.sh	Test runs with bash -e, not the runner's shell options; the due step is untested.	testing	0.66	safe_auto -> review-fixer

Coverage

• Suppressed: 0 findings below 0.60.
• Residual risks worth recording:
  • A tag-derived changelog range and a release-list-derived notes range can cover different commits; both come from legacy.
  • build-deb.yml hardcodes the artifact name deb-packages, so one run cannot call it twice (multi-arch); extendable within v1 with an optional input.
  • The default-branch guard reads github.event.repository.default_branch, absent on schedule events; no caller releases on a schedule.
  • generate-release-notes.sh still runs with a write token in stage-release; the other caller scripts now run with read-only tokens, which is stricter than legacy.
  • Some callers' generate-changelog.sh overrides do not wrap long subjects (pre-existing, legacy has the same).
  • Examples hardcode halos-org/apt.halos.fi; a hatlabs example is needed (Unit 5).

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Verdict: Not ready

Reasoning: Findings 1 to 5 are release-state defects that the job split introduced or made persistent, and the interface would freeze them into v1. Finding 6 violates the repository's own rules.

Fix order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (release state) → 6, 10 (interface before v1) → 7, 8, 17 (tests) → 11 to 15

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Force-pushed review fixes (now e332bcb), folded into the commit each belongs to. Every commit in the stack passes all tests/*.test.sh.

Release state (findings 1 to 5, 11, 13)

• release-version.yml no longer has a due output. A commit that already has a v<upstream>+N_pre tag reuses N, and the downstream jobs make the rerun complete what was left unfinished. It fails when a release tag exists on a descendant of HEAD, so an old run cannot release stale code (1, 2).
• stage-release.yml has one "Stage releases" step: it fails before changing anything when a higher-version release exists, fails when a release with its tags targets another commit, keeps a release for this commit only when it is complete (published pre-release, draft or published stable, asset count equal to the artifact), and replaces it otherwise. Drafts are listed after the pre-release step with a checked gh call and deleted (3, 4, 11, 13).
• apt-publish.yml checks that the release carries assets on both channels; the unstable channel takes the new prerelease-tag input. A misspelled artifact now fails before the dispatch (5).

Interface (6, 10)

• build-deb.yml maintainer inputs have no default and are required in release mode; the example passes them.
• apt-publish.yml drops version-pattern and checks the tag format written by release-version.yml. VERSION is validated in release-version.yml (Debian upstream-version characters, no + or _).

Tests (7, 8, 17)

• tests/lib/step.sh runs extracted steps with bash --noprofile --norc -eo pipefail, and the new workflows set defaults.run.shell: bash so the runner uses the same options (checks.yml too, separate commit).
• tests/lib/fake-gh stores releases as JSON for stage-release tests.
• New: tests/build-deb.test.sh (validation, changelog wrap and range, rename, override arguments), tests/stage-release.test.sh (10 scenarios including partial, other-commit, newer, notes-only, failed create), tests/apt-publish.test.sh (channels, tag formats, assets). release-version.test.sh adds VERSION validation and the stale-commit cases. Each new test was seen failing before its fix; the changelog range test also fails against the legacy tag lookup.
• The changelog now takes the last stable tag reachable from HEAD (git tag --merged HEAD).

Other (12, 14, 15): upload uses *.deb and build/*.deb globs; comments no longer cite build-release.yml; the example grants contents: write only to stage-release.

Not changed

• 9 (lintian on container repos): recorded for their migration in issue 56.
• 16 (APT target repeated): kept explicit per job. Repository variables would move the target out of the file into settings, where a reviewer does not see it.
• Remote verification: the redesigned state logic has run only in tests with a fake gh. The canary re-pin (halos-browser-trust PR 6) runs it for real.