Strange behaviour with a wrong conditional

[Johannes Kastl]

Evening everybody,

I just noticed something strange:

My playbook contains:
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vars:
lxc_version: 2.0
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In the role, that is being called in the playbook, I had the following:
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- name: debug
debug: msg="When lxc_version is 1.0"
when: lxc_version == "1.0"

- name: delete file
file:
dest=/some/path
state=absent
when: lxc_version == "1.0"
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So, both tasks should be skipped, as the conditional is written in a
wrong way: 1.0 is recognized as a number, thus does not need to be
quoted. At least that's how I try to explain it. Feel free to correct
me...

BUT:

Only the debug task is shown as skipped, the file task is shown as
'not changed' but run (green instead of light blue on my machine).

If I change the lines to "when: lxc_version == 1.0" (without the
quoted 1.0), both tasks are shown as skipped.

Is this expected? I would have thought that skipped tasks are really
skipped and should thus be shown as such.

No?

Thanks,
Johannes