The alloy chart's 1.x line pins its config-reloader sidecar by digest. Kubernetes
then reports that container's image as a bare sha256 and puts the usable
reference in image_spec alone, which the derivation was not reading. An hour
after the chart bump the sidecar would have gone unscanned — the exact hole
#0106 exists to close, reopened by an upgrade rather than by neglect.
Worse than missing: the bare digest passed normalisation as repository 'sha256'
with the hex as its tag, so it would have entered targets.txt, failed every pull,
and shown up as a permanent coverage gap pointing at nothing.
Both ends are closed and both are asserted, including that the query still asks
for image_spec — an assertion on the parsing alone would stay green while the
data never arrives.
Ten more decisions cover what is fixed in the repo but not yet rolled out on the
operating host, dated a week out so the alert speaks up if the deploy does not
happen.