catalog-since gate: an image: move must bump the app's catalog_since (R-452) — hook-enforced, shallow CI skips out loud

scripts/test_catalog_gates.py

@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ class CatalogGatesFastTest(unittest.TestCase):
         spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("catalog_gates_under_test", ENTRY)
         mod = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
         spec.loader.exec_module(mod)
-        self.assertEqual(len(mod.GATES), 4)
-        self.assertEqual([g[0] for g in mod.GATES if g[3]], ["image-pins", "engine-major"])
-        # exactly one gate needs git history; it is the one the CI half cannot run (R-452)
-        self.assertEqual([g[0] for g in mod.GATES if g[4]], ["engine-major"])
+        self.assertEqual(len(mod.GATES), 5)
+        self.assertEqual([g[0] for g in mod.GATES if g[3]], ["image-pins", "engine-major", "catalog-since"])
+        # two gates need git history; they are the ones the CI half cannot run (R-452's shallow gap)
+        self.assertEqual([g[0] for g in mod.GATES if g[4]], ["engine-major", "catalog-since"])
 
     def test_engine_major_ran_under_fast(self):
         """The 2026-09-13 gate is fast (git reads only) and must be IN --fast, or the hook that
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ class CatalogGatesFastTest(unittest.TestCase):
             subprocess.run(["git", "clone", "-q", "--depth", "1", "file://" + ROOT, tmp],
                            check=True, capture_output=True)
             # test the WORKING-TREE runner and gate, not whatever HEAD happens to hold
-            for fn in ("catalog_gates.py", "check-engine-major.py", "check-image-pins.py"):
+            for fn in ("catalog_gates.py", "check-engine-major.py", "check-image-pins.py", "check-catalog-since.py"):
                 shutil.copy(os.path.join(ROOT, "scripts", fn), os.path.join(tmp, "scripts", fn))
             p = subprocess.run([sys.executable, os.path.join(tmp, "scripts", "catalog_gates.py"),
                                 "--fast"], cwd=tmp, capture_output=True, text=True)
@@ -90,5 +90,10 @@ class CatalogGatesFastTest(unittest.TestCase):
             shutil.rmtree(tmp, ignore_errors=True)
 
 
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main(verbosity=2)
+
+    def test_catalog_since_ran_under_fast(self):
+        """R-452's gate is fast (git reads only) and must be IN --fast, like engine-major."""
+        self.assertIn("catalog-since gate", self.out)