Prereleases not updating GitHub release

[TeofilC]

It looks like the cabal-head release hasn't been updated since Oct 3 https://github.com/haskell/cabal/releases/tag/cabal-head

Yet the pipelines on master seem to be succeeding and claim to be updating it, eg, https://github.com/haskell/cabal/actions/runs/12399481693/job/34618533301

[geekosaur]

Hm. It also says it updated the artifacts as the prerelease job shows, even though the metadata says it's still for an old commit.

[TeofilC]

I'm suspicious that it's not actually being updated because I don't see #10653 using those artifacts but I am seeing it using the ones I'm getting from the HEAD commit manually

[TeofilC]

Actually I think I'm mistaken. diff tells me they are identical

[geekosaur]

I think we're using a buggy release action, since it should be updating the metadata. I'm going to look for alternative actions. (We switched to the current action because the one we were using is unmaintained, but to date it's been nothing but trouble.)

[geekosaur]

Also: @ulysses4ever, I know you disagree with its scope, but I think we really should land #10541; if nothing else, it would make it easier to verify what commit these prereleases are on. The previous behavior of this particular release action had it supposedly making prereleases, but they were all of the same old commit.

[TeofilC]

FWIW I agree that it would be really helpful if prerelases would tell me the commit when I run cabal --version, otherwise it's very easy to lose track of what version you have

[ulysses4ever]

This is a dup #10537

[ulysses4ever]

Also: @ulysses4ever, I know you disagree with its scope, but I think we really should land #10541

Did you see my last comment there? I'm all for merging it basically in any form. I thought I approved it but now I see I didn't. Maybe CI wasn't ready or something. I'll make sure to take a look and approve it today. Thanks for working on it!

[geekosaur]

I had it flagged as draft, for one. It's now marked as ready for review.

[ulysses4ever]

@TeofilC do you have energy to resubmit my ulysses4ever@de17531 to fix this issue? I accidentally killed the accompanying PR #10540 (which didn't get any attention in weeks) by resetting my fork, and now someone has to start over...

[TeofilC]

@ulysses4ever sure I'd be happy to rebase that and make a PR: #10654

[TeofilC]

Resolved by #10654