Allow {{#author}} block helper in author-:slug.hbs (#457)

[wakqasahmed]

Fixes #457

Summary

gscan incorrectly flags the {{#author}} block helper as deprecated (GS001-DEPR-AUTHBL) inside Ghost's documented author-:slug.hbs context templates (e.g. author-april.hbs), even though Ghost's docs explicitly say {{#author}} is valid in both author.hbs and author-:slug.hbs.

Root cause

The GS001-DEPR-AUTHBL rule (lib/specs/v2.js, lib/specs/v5.js) exempts author.hbs via a notValidIn string, but the check in lib/checks/001-deprecations.js matched it like this:

const skipTemplateCheck = check.notValidIn && check.notValidIn.match(template);

template is the regex-match result array for the current filename, which JS coerces to a RegExp built from the filename when passed to .match(). So this line was actually testing whether the static string "author.hbs" matches a pattern derived from the current filename — backwards from what it looks like, and only "worked" by coincidence for the exact literal filename author.hbs. Any other filename such as author-april.hbs never matched, so the exemption never applied.

Fix

• Changed notValidIn from the literal string author.hbs to a proper regex, /^author(-.+)?\.hbs$/, in both lib/specs/v2.js and lib/specs/v5.js, matching Ghost's own author-context documentation (author.hbs and author-:slug.hbs).
• Fixed lib/checks/001-deprecations.js to match the template filename against notValidIn directly (themeFile.file.match(check.notValidIn)), which is both correct for the new regex and no longer relies on the reversed-match coincidence.

I did not generalize notValidIn into a broader "literal-or-pattern" mechanism — it is only used by this one rule in both spec files, so a plain regex keeps the fix scoped to what's needed without adding unused flexibility.

Related: #891 fixed a sibling false positive in this same file ({{author.*}} property access inside {{#is "author"}} blocks) but intentionally left the {{#author}} block-helper notValidIn exemption untouched, so this PR does not overlap with it.

Tests

• Added author-april.hbs (containing {{#author}}...{{/author}}) to the existing v2/valid and v5/valid fixture themes, alongside the already-present author.hbs.
• Verified against the pre-fix code that this reproduces the exact reported bug (GS001-DEPR-AUTHBL failure on author-april.hbs).
• Confirmed the existing author.hbs exemption and the existing post.hbs false-positive-catching fixture (v5/invalid/post.hbs, still flags {{#author}} outside an author context) both continue to pass unchanged.

Test plan

• npx vitest run test/001-deprecations.test.js — 28/28 passing
• npx vitest run — same pass/fail counts as main (1 pre-existing, unrelated failure in test/general.test.js around Thumbs.db handling, reproduces identically without this change)
• npx eslint lib/checks/001-deprecations.js lib/specs/v2.js lib/specs/v5.js — clean

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Walkthrough

The deprecation check now evaluates check.notValidIn against the theme file path. The v2 and v5 GS001-DEPR-AUTHBL specifications now match author.hbs and author-* variants. New valid fixtures cover author-april.hbs in both specification versions.

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The PR is narrowly scoped to allow {{#author}} in slugged author templates and is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up: the rule descriptions should reflect the expanded scope, and filename matching should use normalized paths to avoid path-shape or portability issues. These are bounded risks without broad product impact.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: allowing the author block helper in author-:slug.hbs templates.
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lib/checks/001-deprecations.js (1)

21-21: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use themeFile.normalizedFile for the exclusion match.

readThemeStructure() populates this field with normalizePath(). The anchored notValidIn pattern intentionally matches only root-level author*.hbs paths.

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In `@lib/checks/001-deprecations.js` at line 21, Update the exclusion match in the
deprecation check to use themeFile.normalizedFile instead of themeFile.file,
preserving the existing check.notValidIn condition and anchored root-level path
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Inline comments:
In `@lib/specs/v2.js`:
- Line 74: Update the GS001-DEPR-AUTHBL adjacent details text in lib/specs/v2.js
lines 74-74 and lib/specs/v5.js lines 547-547 to document both author.hbs and
author-*.hbs, keeping the metadata descriptions consistent across versions.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@lib/checks/001-deprecations.js`:
- Line 21: Update the exclusion match in the deprecation check to use
themeFile.normalizedFile instead of themeFile.file, preserving the existing
check.notValidIn condition and anchored root-level path matching.

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