This project's "Check Go Dependencies" workflow uses the Licensed tool to check for incompatible dependency licenses. The dependencies license metadata cache used by Licensed is stored in a folder named .licensed.
In order to facilitate updates, the workflow uploads the generated dependencies license metadata cache as a workflow artifact when the current cache is found to be outdated.
The . at the start of the .licensed folder name causes it to now not be uploaded to the workflow artifact. In order to catch such problems, the workflow configures the actions/upload-artifact action to fail if no files were uploaded. So in addition to not uploading the artifact, the change in the "actions/upload-artifact" action's behavior also resulted in the workflow runs failing. For example:
A breaking change was made in the 3.2.1 release of the actions/upload-artifact action (https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact/issues/602), without doing a major version bump as would be done in a responsibly maintained project. The action now defaults to not uploading "hidden" files.
This project's "Check Go Dependencies" workflow uses the Licensed tool to check for incompatible dependency licenses. The dependencies license metadata cache used by Licensed is stored in a folder named
.licensed.In order to facilitate updates, the workflow uploads the generated dependencies license metadata cache as a workflow artifact when the current cache is found to be outdated.
The
.at the start of the.licensedfolder name causes it to now not be uploaded to the workflow artifact. In order to catch such problems, the workflow configures the actions/upload-artifact action to fail if no files were uploaded. So in addition to not uploading the artifact, the change in the "actions/upload-artifact" action's behavior also resulted in the workflow runs failing. For example:https://github.com/arduino/setup-task/actions/runs/10682280265/job/29607763024?pr=1043#step:8:8
The problem is fixed by disabling the actions/upload-artifact action's new behavior via the
include-hidden-filesinput.After this change, the workflow can once more upload the dependencies license metadata cache to a workflow artifact as needed. For example:
https://github.com/arduino/setup-task/actions/runs/10688155948/job/29627399765?pr=1043#step:8:22