ci(e2e): surface overlay drift and remove both causes of it - #4261

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Inline comments:
In `@hack/overlay-main-images.sh`:
- Around line 134-135: Update the annotation construction in the overlay drift
reporting flow to deduplicate the entries in drift_files before calculating the
package count. Build the sorted unique package list once, use its entry count
for the warning title/message, and reuse that list when rendering the annotation
contents.

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NOT LGTM. The mechanism is right and the headline result reproduces, but the reason recorded for why the widened key branch stays narrow is wrong in three places, one of them a commit body saying a test holds it.

Business context: a package left on its committed ref runs a release image in a lane meant to exercise the tree under review, and this removes the two causes of that.

Most of this PR is claims about behaviour, so, what I checked rather than read.

drift=5 to drift=0 reproduces. I rebuilt artifact copies of the five named packages by running each package's own yq -i stamp over its committed values.yaml, then ran the script from main and from this head over that tree. Five drifted, then none, same five names. The cozystack-api diff comes out byte-identical to the one in the description, 4d3 and 6c5 included.

The controller pin is as stale as claimed: e8bf0521... was last written by Prepare release v1.6.0-rc.4 on 2026-07-21 and has not moved since, while the MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis and Kafka drivers all landed after it.

21 tests against 21 @test blocks, green under the bats binary and under hack/cozytest.sh alike. I mutated eleven single lines of the script, one per claim the tests make. Every one reddens at least one test.

The Finalize check run on this head carries one annotation and it is the Node 20 deprecation notice, so the clean-run silence holds in CI too.

Blockers

B1: the trailing colon is not what keeps the key branch off imagePullPolicy

hack/overlay-main-images.sh:93, hack/overlay-main-images_test.bats:246, commits 895b30f7 and dffa880d.

The script comment says the key has to end at image, "so imagePullPolicy: and imagePullSecrets: still do not match". 895b30f7 repeats it. dffa880d goes further: "Remove it and imagePullPolicy matches the key branch, so a file differing only on a pull policy is overlaid ... The comment asserting that narrowness now has a test behind it."

Evidence: the branch is ^[[:space:]]*(- )?[A-Za-z]+[Ii]mage:... and [A-Za-z]+ needs a letter before image. A key that begins with image has nothing to put there, so neither key matches with the colon or without it. I ran the classifier as it stood at dffa880d and as it stands here, each with and without the colon, against imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent, imagePullPolicy: Always, imagePullSecrets: [] and imagePullPolicy: docker/whatever. No match in any of the sixteen. Delete the colon from this head and run the suite: test 15 stays green and test 14 goes red instead, because clientImage: "ghcr.io/..." stops matching once the value scan starts at : ".

So the colon is load-bearing for the opposite reason to the one recorded, and the recorded one is what the next maintainer acts on. The comment above test 15 carries the same claim, and the test does not hold it: the only mutation that reddens test 15 is one that discards the whole drift filter, and that reddens four other tests with it.

Fix: record what actually narrows the branch, a letter required before image and a / required in the value, and drop the sentence in dffa880d about a test standing behind the colon. Test 14 is what holds it.

B2: dffa880 explains itself through this pull request's own state

"...the two commits before this one added three EXIT traps to a file declaring eleven, which is why Unit & controller tests is red."

Evidence: contributing.md makes review-iteration and planning vocabulary in a commit body blocking on the text alone. Merges here are merge commits, so this body lands on main, where the job is not red and "the two commits before this one" needs the series reconstructed to resolve.

Fix: state it as a property of the file. A .bats file under hack/ installs no EXIT trap beyond the debt its header declares, and these tests were installing three.

Non-blocking

1. The description is stale on three counts: five commits not four, eight new cases not six, and the plan and ok count agree at 21 not 19. Those are the numbers a reviewer checks the work against.
2. Eleven trap ... EXIT lines survive in the older tests and still do what the third commit describes. I broke test 7 on purpose: bats hack/overlay-main-images_test.bats exits 1 but prints twenty ok lines and no not ok at all, so nothing names the test that failed. hack/cozytest.sh names it, so make unit-tests is fine, but the file header points the reader at the bats invocation. Pre-existing, and this change adds no traps.
3. The widened branch takes any key ending in image or Image whose value holds a / before the first space, which covers values that are not references at all: a host path, a URL. Nothing in the tree hits that today. Outside charts/ the only such keys are the three backup client ones, exporterImage, mariadbImage, maxscaleImage, tinkWorkerImage, kubectlImage and two empty vddkImage. Nearest miss is useUnprivilegedImage: false, kept out by the shape of the value rather than by the key, and it sits under charts/, which the walk prunes anyway.
4. hack/lib/image-refs.sh also enumerates IMAGE_REF_EXTRA_FILES, still invisible to this walk. Unchanged here and documented as a deliberate exception in docs/agents/image-refs.md.

NOT LGTM. The script comment records the right reason now. The same wrong one is still in two other places: the comment above the pull-policy test, and the body of the commit that widened the branch.

Closed since the last round: the script comment names both narrowings and gives the colon back the job it actually does, and the trap commit was rewritten so it no longer explains itself through this pull request's own state. The description is right on all three counts that were stale (six commits, eight new cases, 21).

Re-measured rather than assumed, since the file moved. 21 ok against 21 @test blocks, green under hack/cozytest.sh. The EXIT-TRAP DEBT: 11 header against 11 trap ... EXIT lines, and hack/bats-no-exit-trap.bats green. The classifier is byte-identical to the previous head, and the whole tree diff between the two heads is the new commit's fourteen comment lines, so I spot-checked instead of replaying the mutation ladder.

Blockers

B1: the comment above the pull-policy test still credits the colon

hack/overlay-main-images_test.bats:243-247: "the classifier accepts a prefix before image only up to a colon for exactly that reason ... drop the colon from the key branch and this file is overlaid on a policy change, silently replacing the ref the PR asked for."

Evidence: I dropped the colon from the key branch on this head and ran the suite. a suffixed image key is a ref, not a config change goes red. a key merely STARTING with image is config, not a ref stays green, which I checked on its own with bats --filter "STARTING with image". The comment predicts the opposite of what the file does, and the script comment now says as much, so the two texts this pull request ships disagree. This is the one a reader hits first when asking what the test holds.

Fix: the correction the script comment already took. A letter is required before image, and that is what keeps both pull-policy keys out, with the colon or without it.

B2: the widened-branch commit body still carries the claim

6acb3816: "The trailing colon keeps it narrow: imagePullPolicy and imagePullSecrets are still config, because the key has to end at image."

Evidence: the branch was rewritten for this round. Every commit carries a new hash, and the trap commit's subject and body were rewritten along with it, so the rewrite reached this body and left it standing. Merges here are merge commits, so it lands on main as it reads, and no later commit can edit it.

Fix: reword it in the rewrite that is already happening.

Non-blocking

1. The script comment cites "test 14" by ordinal. Nothing in the file carries that number, it comes from the runner's output order, and an insertion above line 231 moves it with nothing to catch the drift. The test has a name.

LGTM. Both blockers are closed.

The comment above the pull-policy test now names the letter the branch demands before image and gives the colon back its real job. The widened-branch commit body dropped the claim as well. The script comment's "test 14" became the test's name, which covers last round's non-blocking note. This time I grepped both files and all six commit bodies for the claim in any wording instead of rechecking the two places I had quoted, and what is left about the colon is correct.

Re-measured after the rewrite. 21 ok against 21 @test blocks, green, and the file uses no bats run/$status/$output. EXIT-TRAP DEBT: 11 against 11 trap ... EXIT lines, trap audit green. With comments stripped the script is byte-identical across the two heads, so the classifier did not move and I reproduced only the mutation the dispute turned on: dropping the colon reddens a suffixed image key is a ref, not a config change and leaves a key merely STARTING with image is config, not a ref green. The drift guard still fires on a content line, and a real config line still counts as drift alongside a blank line holds it. Rebuilding artifact copies of the five packages with each one's own yq stamp over its committed values.yaml gives drift=5 on the parent of the first commit and drift=0 here, with every non-ref line in those five diffs blank.

Non-blocking

1. hack/overlay-main-images.sh:99 is 134 characters where the rest of the block stays under 84. The test name went in without a rewrap.
2. 609a014c says "the mutation now reddens test 19" — the same ordinal pointer the script comment just lost, and a commit body cannot be fixed afterwards.
3. The description says seven packages took that path on the run behind #4257. 618ab584 says six, citing the same run.
4. e9f666bc says each of the five differed from the artifact by one blank line and its own ref. Running each package's own stamp over the committed file, which is the check that body names, costs core/platform three blank lines (149, 623, 804). The other four lose one each.