A codename carries no ordering, so 'bookworm' and 'trixie' are two opaque
strings and no updater can tell that one supersedes the other. A pin that
names its Debian release that way is frozen on that release for as long as
it stands, and the freeze is invisible because the tag keeps resolving.
Numeric tags are comparable and stay inside the freshness pipeline, so the
rule is worth holding for the whole repository rather than fixing case by
case.
The check reads two shapes, because a codename reaches the tree in two
spellings. A 'name:tag' reference is recognised by the absence of a space
after the colon, which is what separates 'debian:bookworm' from the YAML
'image: python' and covers Dockerfile FROM lines and heredocs without a
second parser. A 'version:' value is read as a key, because '3.11-bookworm'
carries no colon at all.
False positives are kept out by two independent gates: a word-boundary
prefilter, so 'residual' and 'inside' are not read as 'sid', and a split of
the tag on '-', '.' and '_' that requires a whole component to be a
codename. That is what lets 'cache buster', '.stretched-link',
'fa-bullseye' and a tags list containing 'stretch' through. Every codename
occurrence in the repository was checked against the matcher by hand, and
the check was negative-controlled in both shapes, including an untracked
file.
Four references had to move for the rule to hold. meta/distros.yml takes
'debian:13' rather than '13.6': at depth 1 the updater can raise it across
a major, while depth 2 pins it inside the 13.x line forever. The whole
'make install' path was run in a debian:13 container to back that: all
twenty-four Depends and Recommends resolve on trixie, the docker repository
bootstrap derives the right suite and installs docker-ce-cli, and the
package builds and installs.
The workspace DiD probe moves to 'debian:13-slim'. An earlier version of
this change carried a suppression claiming the probe had to follow the
suite the apt proxy mirrors. That was wrong twice over: it cited a function
that has nothing to do with the probe, and the coupling does not exist,
because the cache frontend rewrites by path prefix and the suite never
enters a routing decision. Replaying the probe verbatim against
debian:13-slim fetches all three trixie suites through the
bookworm-configured proxies, so the suppression is gone rather than
reworded.
The rule ships with an escape hatch and no uses of it.
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scripts/tests/environment/ becomes scripts/tests/workspace/ with one
subdirectory per track. base/ prepares the workspace and is a prerequisite;
compose/ and swarm/ are independent of each other, so CI can run them as
separate jobs with a budget each. 00_orchestrator.sh runs the tracks named
by INFINITO_WORKSPACE_TRACKS and aborts on an unknown one.
The job count stays at five: cli.meta.ci.dev_runtime matrix assigns exactly
one track per distro and flips the split with the run number, so two
consecutive runs cover both tracks on every distro without doubling the
matrix. The workspace_track input (rotate|compose|swarm) pins it from manual
steer through the orchestrator for a targeted re-run.
Job names carry the track glyph from utils/symbol_glossary and the image
shortened to its last two segments, so quay.io/centos/centos:latest reads
as centos:latest.
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The workspace workflow asked the distro SPOT two questions through embedded python one-liners: the matrix image list, and the distro behind a matrix entry. Give both a name -- distro_of_dev_runtime_image() as the counterpart to dev_runtime_image(), and a cli.meta.ci.dev_runtime module shaped like its image_ref neighbour. The empty-SPOT guard that protected the matrix from silently skipping every job moves along with it. No caller yet; the workflow switches over in the next commit.
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