#196 ci: add a packaging smoke-test job (build + install the wheel)

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: fu351

What

.github/workflows/ci.yml's only install step is pip install -e ".[dev]" (line 39) — an editable install. CI never builds and installs the actual distributable wheel, so a packaging bug (e.g. a missing packages/package-data entry in [tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel], or a file that only exists because of the editable symlink) would ship to a release without CI ever catching it. Add a CI job (or an extra step in the existing test job) that runs python -m build, installs the resulting wheel into a clean venv, and runs doberman --version to prove the packaged distribution actually works standalone.

Difficulty: level-6

Tooling/CI/packaging: mechanically small (a few new steps), but packaging failures are exactly the "unfamiliar failure" category this level is about — a wheel that's missing a data file fails in ways pip install -e never surfaces.

Safety constraints (do not weaken these)

• This is a new, additive CI check — it must not replace or weaken the existing pip install -e ".[dev]" editable-install test path (the fast dev-loop signal for ruff/lint-imports/pytest); it runs alongside it.
• Do not disable or skip the standalone-guarantee check (ci.yml lines 40–46) or the secret-scan job while adding this — a new job must not reduce existing coverage.

Starting files

• .github/workflows/ci.yml — the test job (lines 12–51); add a python -m build + wheel-install step, or a new job.
• pyproject.toml — [build-system] / [tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel] (the build package will need to be available; add it to CI, not to runtime dependencies).

Acceptance criteria

• [ ] CI builds a wheel with python -m build and installs it (not -e) into a fresh environment.
• [ ] CI runs doberman --version (or another lightweight smoke command) against the installed wheel and fails the build if it errors.
• [ ] The existing editable-install test job steps (ruff/lint-imports/pytest) are unchanged.
• [ ] Existing behaviour unchanged (no test weakened, no output format broken)
• [ ] ruff check . && ruff format --check . and lint-imports pass
• [ ] pytest passes

How to validate

python -m pip install build
python -m build
python -m venv /tmp/wheel-check && /tmp/wheel-check/bin/pip install dist/*.whl
/tmp/wheel-check/bin/doberman --version

Out of scope

• Do not change [tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]'s actual package list unless the wheel build genuinely fails without it — this issue is about catching packaging bugs in CI, not fixing a specific one that isn't yet known to exist.
• Do not add wheel-build/publish-to-PyPI automation — that's a separate concern from this smoke check.

Notes for contributors

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[Anonymous]

Ticket changed by: fu351

• status: open --> closed