Github release publishing works, but I get two releases and a "Run failed: Gradle package" error email

[reportmill]

I just (j)deployed a new release as a GitHub release, and it works, but I get two releases:

2026.7.30 release: https://github.com/reportmill/RM16/releases/tag/2026.7.30
jdeploy release: https://github.com/reportmill/RM16/releases/tag/jdeploy

Then I also get two emails from Github titled "Run failed: Gradle package". Any idea what is going on?

[reportmill]

In case it helps, the two emails reference these logs:

2026.07.30 release: https://github.com/reportmill/RM16/actions/runs/30593995029

jdeploy release: https://github.com/reportmill/RM16/actions/runs/30594030424

[shannah]

The "jdeploy" tag is a special tag that contains the package info listing all the versions. This is instead of using the npm package info.

That tag gets updated on each release with the new versions and checksums etc...

[reportmill]

Does it matter if this release stays there? I was thinking I needed to add a download link on my site to the latest release (https://github.com/reportmill/RM16/releases/latest), but that ends up pointing to the jdeploy release instead of the one with the actual files.

[reportmill]

Aha! I've just pushed a second release, it shows up for the 'latest' link. I guess it just needs the 'jdeploy' release there once.

Also, no Github error email today. Might be because I deleted an old workflow yesterday, and maybe it was in a cache some place.

Thanks for your help. I probably should have just waited. :-) I'm going to close this issue.

[shannah]

I agree that the presence of this extra release there is annoying. I'll take another look to see what i can do to "hide" it better.

[reportmill]

I think it’s fine - I wouldn’t even have noticed it but for GitHub’s hiccup and that it showed up as ‘latest’ for my initial release. I see now it was added for SnapCode, too, but I didn’t notice because I use jdeploy.com/~snapcodejava instead of a direct GitHub url (I still think your download page is way better :-) )