ci(release): fail loudly when a tag release ends up without its APK

v2026.08.07 had to be re-cut, and the tag build's android-release job
never started — no job log was written at all, so all eight steps reported
`failure` with none executed and image-release showed `skipped`.

The run was red, but the release PAGE rendered fine and main's own push
build had already moved :latest, so the code was deployable and nothing
looked obviously wrong. What was actually missing — the attached APK and
the immutable :vYYYY.MM.DD image — is easy to skim past, and I nearly did.

This cannot prevent that. The cause was a runner failing to launch a
container, not anything in this file, and it did not reproduce on an
unchanged re-run. What this does is make the CONSEQUENCE legible: an
incomplete release now fails with a named error instead of eight mystery
step failures, and the message says to re-run the run rather than delete
and re-create the tag.

`if: always()` is load-bearing — the job has to report precisely when the
jobs above did not succeed.

Correcting the record while here: I first blamed this on the workflow's
`cancel-in-progress` concurrency block. That was wrong. Cancellation needs
a NEWER run in the same group, and there was exactly one run on the tag
ref (total_count 632 -> 633 on release creation); the main-push runs sit
in a different group. Plausible mechanism, unchecked precondition.

Validated locally: YAML parses, `bash -n` clean, and the asset-parsing
logic unit-checked against a release with an APK, one with no assets, and
one with a non-APK asset.
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@@ -322,3 +322,58 @@ jobs:
docker buildx build \
--build-arg MINSTREL_VERSION="${{ steps.tags.outputs.version }}" \
--push ${{ steps.tags.outputs.args }} .
# Verifies a tag release actually ended up complete, and names the specific
# thing that's missing if not.
#
# Added 2026-08-07 after v2026.08.07 was re-cut. The android-release job never
# started — no log was written at all — so all eight of its steps reported
# `failure` with none executed and image-release showed `skipped`. The run was
# red, but the *release page rendered fine*, and `main`'s own push build had
# already moved `:latest`, so the code was deployable and nothing looked
# obviously wrong. The release was simply missing its APK and its immutable
# `:vYYYY.MM.DD` image, which is easy to skim past.
#
# This job cannot prevent that (the cause was a runner failing to launch, not
# anything in this file). What it does is turn an incomplete release into an
# explicit, named error instead of eight mystery step failures — so the
# consequence is legible without having to infer it.
#
# `if: always()` is the whole point: it has to report precisely when the jobs
# above did NOT succeed.
verify-release:
name: Verify release artifacts (tag releases only)
needs: [android-release, image-release]
if: ${{ always() && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') }}
runs-on: go-ci
container:
image: git.fabledsword.com/bvandeusen/ci-go:1.26
steps:
- name: Release must have an APK attached
shell: bash
env:
CI_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_TOKEN }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
TAG="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}"
REPO="${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}"
REL_JSON="$(curl -fsSL \
-H "Authorization: token ${CI_TOKEN}" \
"https://git.fabledsword.com/api/v1/repos/${REPO}/releases/tags/${TAG}" || true)"
if [ -z "${REL_JSON}" ]; then
echo "::error::no release found for ${TAG} — the tag exists but nothing was published"
exit 1
fi
APK="$(printf '%s' "${REL_JSON}" \
| grep -oP '"browser_download_url":\s*"\K[^"]+' \
| grep -E '\.apk$' | head -1 || true)"
if [ -z "${APK}" ]; then
echo "::error::release ${TAG} has NO APK attached — in-app update will offer nothing, and the bundled-APK path on future :latest builds has no source."
echo "::error::Fix by RE-RUNNING this workflow run. Do NOT delete and re-create the tag; if it fails again the runner never started the container, and the evidence is in act_runner on the host (Gitea will hold no job log)."
exit 1
fi
echo "::notice::${TAG} verified — APK attached: ${APK}"