Give the desktop a nightly channel, the way the phone has one

ADR 0014 gave the phone a nightly and ADR 0013 rule 3 gave the desktop none, so
the two heads had different answers to the same question — how does somebody try
what is on main? — for no reason except the order the work happened in. This is
the desktop's answer: CI publishes a build from main on every push, and it
installs beside the release one rather than over it.

The phone gets its separation from the platform. Android refuses an update signed
by a different key, so its two channels cannot replace one another whatever
anybody does. Nothing refuses anything here: Velopack applies what its feed serves
and verifies no signature. So all of it is construction, and there are four
separations because each closes a different door.

A pack id each, so the two install in different directories and neither feed's
package can be applied to the other's install. A Velopack channel each —
win and win-nightly — so neither build ever reads the other's release index; the
name reaches the wire as releases.win-nightly.json, which is why the constant in
VelopackUpdateChannel and the argument in ci.yml have to agree or the channel
answers nothing forever with no error. A prerelease flag, so the release channel
cannot see the nightly even by accident. And a profile directory each, which is
the one that is easy to skip and would hurt most: the cache schema is migrated on
every launch, before unlock, so a shared profile means a nightly quietly upgrading
a database the release build then opens. Both are installed at once by design, so
that is an ordinary Tuesday rather than a corner case.

The prerelease flag turns out to be load-bearing across heads as well. The phone's
release channel reads releases/latest, which skips prereleases — so a desktop
nightly published as a stable release would become the newest release in this
repository and every phone on the release channel would start failing its check
against a release carrying no Android manifest.

Which build this is arrives as assembly metadata, the same mechanism and the same
reasoning as the Android head: the updater needs the string rather than a branch,
and a value baked into the assembly is one a crash report can be asked for. Three
things read it — the feed, the prerelease flag, and the profile — and one more
shows it: the titlebar says DodoSSH Nightly. Everything else that distinguishes
the two is somewhere nobody is looking while typing a passphrase into one of them.

The version needed a floor and it is applied to the whole build rather than to the
packaging. MinVer answers 0.0.0-alpha.0.N until the first v* tag and vpk refuses
anything below 0.0.1, so the job lifts the patch digit and keeps the height —
through MinVerVersionOverride, so the assemblies carry the same number the
installer does. Packing a version the assembly disagreed with would put one string
on the preferences screen and another in the feed, which is the screen somebody
reads when asked which nightly they are on.

Two things found by running it rather than reading it. -t:MinVer needs a restore
first, because the target arrives with the package and MSB4057 on a clean checkout
reads like a typo in the workflow rather than a missing restore; the release
script had the same gap and now restores before it reads. And vpk rejects an empty
--packVersion loudly, which is how a broken version handoff announces itself
rather than shipping a package called 1.0.0.

Rule 3 is untouched. The release channel still has no job, no token and no runner,
and the two channels cannot see each other. What a nightly costs is written where
somebody reads it before installing one: whoever can write a release here can put
a build on every nightly machine, which is fine for a build being tried and is not
fine for a build holding somebody's infrastructure credentials.

Verified by running the job's own steps against a clone in a Linux container:
DodoSSH.Desktop.Nightly-win-nightly-Setup.exe, and an index naming pack id
DodoSSH.Desktop.Nightly at 0.0.1-alpha.0.144. The upload itself is the one step
not exercised — it needs a real forge and a write token, and check 16.10 is what
walks the half no runner can.
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lost their offline unlock and any change that was still in the outbox. That is the failure ADR 0013
decision 2 exists to prevent, and it is why 16.1 checks the same thing from the other end.
### 16.10 The nightly installs beside the release build and not over it · **the one CI cannot check**
Needs both: a release build installed by walking 16.1, and `DodoSSH.Desktop.Nightly-win-nightly-Setup.exe`
from the `nightly-desktop` release. Install the nightly second, and then start **both**.
**Pass:** two entries in the Start menu, one *DodoSSH* and one *DodoSSH Nightly*; two directories,
`%LOCALAPPDATA%\DodoSSH.Desktop` and `%LOCALAPPDATA%\DodoSSH.Desktop.Nightly`; two profiles,
`%LOCALAPPDATA%\DodoSSH` and `%LOCALAPPDATA%\DodoSSH.Nightly`, each with its own `cache.db` and
`device.key`. The nightly's titlebar says **DodoSSH Nightly** and the release build's says **DodoSSH**
which is the only difference visible while somebody is typing a passphrase into one of them. Signing in to
the nightly leaves the release build signed in and untouched, and the account shows a second device.
**Failure means:** if there is one profile directory, the two builds are sharing a cache and a device key,
and the next nightly carrying a schema migration will upgrade the database the release build opens. If
there is one install directory, the pack ids collide and the nightly has replaced the release build
outright — which is the thing ADR 0013 decision 9 is constructed to make impossible, so it means one of the
four separations has been undone.
**And the direction that matters most:** on the release build, PREFERENCES → UPDATES → CHECK NOW must not
offer a nightly, ever, however many have been published since. It reads a different index and refuses
prereleases; if a nightly version is ever offered there, stop and treat it as a release-channel incident
rather than as a bug in the nightly.
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## Phase 17 — Installing and updating the phone