`config/main.yml` exists in no role: f65f4d60fb migrated the last one. A guard
against the string already exists, `TestNoLegacyPathReferences`, and it names
`config/main.yml` among its LEGACY_TOKENS. It scanned plugins, utils, cli,
roles, scripts, filter_plugins and lookup_plugins, which is every tree except
the two the stale references actually lived in.
So nine of them survived in `tests/`, and the guard reported green the whole
time. The code underneath was already correct everywhere: `test_csp_consistency`
and `test_role_wiring` iterate ROLE_FILE_META_SERVICES, and only their docstrings
and one assertion message still said `config/main.yml`. Had any of them globbed
the old path the test would have gone vacuous rather than red, which is the
failure mode worth naming here.
`tests` and `tasks` are now scanned. The targets come from
`utils/roles/mapping.py`, not from guesswork: `config/main.yml` is
`meta/services.yml`, `schema/main.yml` is `meta/secrets.yml` (confirmed at
`cli/administration/inventory/provision/reset.py:67`, which reads exactly that
file), and `users/main.yml` is `meta/users.yml`.
Scanning `tasks` exposed a second dead pointer. The migration tool became a
package on 2026-09-14, but EXEMPT_FILES still named `migrate_meta_layout.py`, a
file that no longer exists, so the exemption was inert and only invisible
because `tasks` went unscanned. Two dead pointers covering for each other. The
exemption is now a directory, so a new module in that package cannot fall out of
it. `test_no_direct_calls.py` named the same dead path in prose; that lint
allows through nocheck markers at the call site, so nothing was broken there.
`docs/administration/configuration/email.md` was the worst of them, because it
instructed operators rather than describing tests: it told them to write
`compose.services.email` into `roles/<application_id>/config/main.yml`. The
consumer, `plugins/lookup/email.py:255`, reads `entry["services"]["email"]` and
says in its own comment that there is no `compose.services` envelope. The role
snippet, the inventory snippet and the precedence list now match the reader.
`group_vars/all/TODO.md` pointed at the same dead file.
Verified by watching the guard fail, twice. Re-introducing `config/main.yml` in
a test file reports it; pointing the new directory exemption at a wrong path
reports `tasks/utils/migrate_meta_layout/credentials.py`, which proves both that
`tasks` is scanned and that the exemption is the only thing letting the
migration tool through. Restored, 11 passed.
The changelogs under `docs/changelog/` keep their mentions, and `.md` stays out
of the scanned suffixes for that reason.
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Every script a role ships now lives under `files/<language>/`, and the unit
suite is split the same way: `tests/unit/python/` beside new sibling trees for
the other languages. `tests/lint/filesystem/test_role_files_layout.py` keeps it
that way; directories whose shape is dictated from outside carry a `.nocheck`
naming the constraint (Docker build contexts, WordPress mu-plugins, the Joomla
extension, Odoo addons, Playwright suites, the `files/test/test.sh` harness
that `test-e2e-cli` resolves generically).
This cannot be applied in halves. Moving a file and repointing what names it
are the same change: 14 references resolve only at deploy time, so the tree is
green either before or after, never between.
Those 14 were found by static resolution over every reference class, not by the
test suite -- a full `make quality-high` was green while all of them were
broken:
* 7 `src:` values built from a role variable holding a bare filename
(svc-bkp-remote-2-local, decidim, espocrm, friendica, joomla, pixelfed x2).
The variable doubles as the destination name inside the container, so the
language segment belongs at the call site, not in the variable.
* `sys-service/tasks/04_base.yml` resolved every consumer's systemd script
through `first_found(..., errors='strict')` over `files/script.{sh,py}`.
18 roles ship exactly that and have no template fallback: the play would
have died on each.
* `sys-front-inj-javascript` fell back to `<role>/files/javascript.js`; the
interface now reads `files/javascript/javascript.js`.
* `sys-front-inj-logout/templates/head_sub.j2` built the cache-busting mtime
path through `path_absolute(... 'files', ...)`.
* 4 `ansible.builtin.script:` invocations naming a bare command
(pull.py, prune.sh, set_postgres_superuser_password.sh, ganesha-serve.sh).
* `dev-python/files/shell/install.sh` pointed at a sibling role's script.
Depth-dependent paths inside the moved trees were bumped accordingly: 59
`parents[N]` computations, 12 relative climbs, and the per-role recover CLI,
whose path `cli/administration/recover/recoverers.py` still assembled from the
pre-move location.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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