Pin every action to a commit SHA

A tag is a mutable pointer. `actions/checkout@v7` is whatever the
publisher last moved v7 to, so using one is not trusting the version that
was reviewed -- it is trusting every future version, including whatever
is pushed by whoever compromises the publisher's account. That is the
shape of the tj-actions/changed-files compromise: no repository changed a
line, the tags moved underneath them, and the action began dumping runner
memory to the logs.

Each `uses:` now carries the full 40-character SHA with its release in a
trailing comment. Read the comment for the version; the SHA is what runs.
Dependabot already covers github-actions weekly and updates both halves
together, so keeping current costs nothing.

The dataaxiom cleanup action was already pinned -- it is handed
`packages: write` and deletes things, so it was worth doing early -- and
only picks up the trailing-version convention here. Its comment loses the
"rather than a moving major tag" framing, which is no longer what makes
it different from its neighbors now that they are all pinned too.

The two `uses: ./.github/workflows/...` entries are local paths, not
actions: they always resolve within the commit already running and there
is no SHA to pin.
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@@ -39,11 +39,12 @@ jobs:
permissions:
packages: write
steps:
# Pinned to a commit rather than a moving major tag. This action is
# handed `packages: write` and its whole job is deletion, so a tag
# repointed at something else -- by a compromise or a mistake upstream --
# is a bad day. v1.2.2.
- uses: dataaxiom/ghcr-cleanup-action@d52806a0dc70b430571a37da1fde39733ffd640f
# The only third-party action here that is not published by GitHub or
# Docker, and the one with the most to lose: it is handed
# `packages: write` and its whole job is deletion, so a ref repointed at
# something else -- by a compromise or a mistake upstream -- is a bad
# day. It was pinned to a commit long before the rest of them were.
- uses: dataaxiom/ghcr-cleanup-action@d52806a0dc70b430571a37da1fde39733ffd640f # v1.2.2
with:
owner: Coffey-Labs
package: ihasmail