Criterion one of this piece of work was that the hand-maintained list stops
existing and is not replaced by another maintained file. It is deleted here; the
scanner reads what the exporter derives.
Without a usable list the loop does nothing at all and retries in a minute
rather than sleeping out the full day, because after a deploy the exporter only
writes the file on its next scrape. The old file staying put during a failed
derivation is deliberate: the loop then keeps working from the last known state
instead of running into nothing.
Probed rather than assumed, with trivy stubbed: no list skips the round, an
empty list skips the round, and a list with a comment header scans exactly its
two entries.
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