bug: 🐛 Adding glab to 01-main causes errors until the required function gets into users' deb-get

[philclifford]

Reporting a bug 🐛

Until a new release is made the required function and other amendments to allow them to get the package info from gitlab are not present in end-users' deb-get but their next and subsequent deb-get update will generate "missing info" errors because there is no file retrieved.

It all works fine if the user has a version of deb-get at or after the commit that introduced the new behaviour.

[!TIP] Users affected by this can overcome the problem by fetching the deb-get from the HEAD of the main branch.

Maybe we should have a "breaking changes" dev branch that such changes can be merged into and which can be merged into main as part of a release.

[thestub]

We need to add better error handling, as currently the stability of the tool is in the hands of the maintainers of other application.

[philclifford]

currently the stability of the tool is in the hands of the maintainers of other application.

That is inevitable I'm afraid. This problem however was self-inflicted and entirely my fault for not being awake enough to remember that before we commit a new package definition to the repository our users will fetch on their next update which depends on functionality in deb-get that they will not yet have if using the current release we must make a new release with such functionality included. The package definition can be added after the release is out.