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cmc <hello@cleberg.net> · 2026-08-22 03:58 UTC

Drop --exclude-mail, and assert the external check ran

mailto is excluded by default in lychee 0.24.2; the flag does not exist, so the
step died on an invalid argument. Because fail: false also swallows a crash, it
reported success while checking nothing — the guard makes that impossible.

Layout: unified · split

.github/workflows/link-check.yml +11 −1

         uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@v2.9.0
         with:
           args: >-
-            --exclude-mail
             --root-dir ${{ github.workspace }}/.build-dev
             --exclude '\.onion'
             --max-concurrency 8
           fail: false
           output: external.md
+      # `fail: false` stops a dead third-party link failing the job — but it also
+      # swallows lychee refusing to start at all, which reports success while
+      # checking nothing. Assert the report has a summary table in it.
+      - name: External step actually ran
+        run: |
+          if ! grep -q "Total" external.md; then
+            echo "::error::lychee produced no summary — it did not run"
+            cat external.md
+            exit 1
+          fi
       - name: Summary
         if: always()
         run: |

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