Merged commit pipelines failing

Teo Camarasu
2026-01-21T15:12:09Z

I've noticed that while pipelines on MR and scheduled pipelines seem to complete successfully, pipelines on just merged commits seem to fail consistently with an error in the discover bindists script.

See this job for instance: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/head.hackage/-/jobs/2101005

```
$ GHC_TARBALL=$(discover_tarball.sh)
NIGHTLY=
RELEASE_JOB=
SLOW_VALIDATE=1
ARCH=x86_64
BINDIST_NAME=ghc-x86_64-linux-deb12-numa-slow-validate.tar.xz
JOB_NAME=x86_64-linux-deb12-numa-slow-validate
Finding x86_64-linux-deb12-numa-slow-validate binary distribution from master...
jq: error (at :0): Cannot index string with string "id"
```

I feel like there must be some sort of authentication issue or maybe it is being passed subtly different arguments?