Give beta DEB and RPM packages a pre-release number (#113) (#116)

* build: give beta DEB and RPM packages a pre-release number (#113)

composePackageVersion is the package version of every Compose target
format, so an RPM or DEB built from a beta tag carried exactly the
version of the following stable one. dnf, rpm -U and dpkg refuse to
replace a package by one of equal version, so a beta user could not
move to the stable.

Keep the version and tell the packages apart by the package release
number, following the Fedora pre-release convention: the new Gradle
property linuxAppRelease is passed to jpackage as --linux-app-release
(Compose LinuxPlatformSettings.appRelease) and defaults to 1.

  beta-v1.50.0-beta-001 -> 1.50.0-0.beta.001
  beta-v1.50.0-rc02     -> 1.50.0-0.rc02
  v1.50.0               -> 1.50.0-1

Everything starting with "0." sorts below "1" for both rpm and dpkg.
Nightlies and local builds do not set the property and keep release 1.

Fixes #113

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: derive the Linux release number from the tag and verify the tag version (#113)

The DEB and RPM jobs now compute the package release from the tag
before calling Gradle and pass it as -PlinuxAppRelease: a stable
vX.Y.Z tag gives 1, a beta-vX.Y.Z-<suffix> tag gives 0.<suffix> with
"-" turned into ".". The result must match [A-Za-z0-9.]+, otherwise
the step fails. A workflow_dispatch run from a branch keeps release 1
like the nightlies; nightly-artifacts.yml is unchanged.

The test job, which every packaging job depends on, now checks right
after the checkout that the X.Y.Z in the tag equals
composePackageVersion in gradle.properties and fails with a clear
message otherwise, so a mistagged commit fails before an hour of
packaging rather than shipping packages whose version contradicts
their file name and upgrade order.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: describe the pre-release number of beta DEB and RPM packages (#113)

The German and English installation manuals say in the Debian/Ubuntu
and Fedora sections that beta packages carry a pre-release number
below the stable one, so the stable installs as an upgrade over a
beta. The v1.50 changelogs gain the matching "Fixed" entry, and
PROJECT_CONTEXT.md records the rule next to the MSI decision.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ Several operators sharing one computer can now use their own callsigns, locators
- **No automatic cluster spots for worked stations:** the local DX Cluster server generated spots from directional opportunities without checking the worked state. A spot is no longer created when the station has already been worked on the band of the detected frequency; without per-band information the global worked state counts. Manual spots from the map and the test spot in the settings are unchanged. This fixes [Issue #91](https://github.com/praktimarc/kst4contest/issues/91).
- **QSO monitoring no longer picks up foreign entries:** besides the list of monitored callsigns, `preferences.xml` carried a second list `snifferWords` that never appeared in the user interface. On loading, its entries were nevertheless added to QSO monitoring as callsigns. The dead list is removed; a `snifferWords` element in older files is ignored. This fixes [Issue #103](https://github.com/praktimarc/kst4contest/issues/103).
- **No second-category locator any more:** internally there was a setting for a separate locator of the second chat category that appeared neither in the user interface nor in `preferences.xml`, so it always kept its compiled-in default. During login that default was compared with the station's locator and a warning was emitted that the second locator is ignored. ON4KST uses one locator per TCP session anyway; the setting and the warning are removed. This fixes [Issue #104](https://github.com/praktimarc/kst4contest/issues/104).
- **Linux beta packages upgrade to the stable package:** DEB and RPM packages of a beta tag carried the same version number as the following stable package, so `dnf` and `dpkg` refused the upgrade as an equal version. Beta packages now carry a pre-release number (`1.50.0-0.beta.001`) below the stable package (`1.50.0-1`), and the release run aborts when the tag does not match `composePackageVersion`. This fixes [Issue #113](https://github.com/praktimarc/kst4contest/issues/113).
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