Fix for HPCC4J BareMetal GitHub Action Py Issue

[error9098x]

Type of change:

• This change is a bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue).
• This change is a new feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality).
• This change is a breaking change (fix or feature that will cause existing behavior to change).

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Testing:

There appears to be an issue with the baremetal-regression-suite.yml GitHub workflow; it's breaking due to a Python-related problem as mentioned in this JIRA Ticket

The Problem seems to be lying here:
previousVersion = [latestVersion[0], latestVersion[1], latestVersion[2] - 2]

A subtraction operation is attempted on the third element of the latestVersion list.
However, latestVersion = getLatestBranchVersion(branch_name) returns the latest version as string (e.g., '9.6.0'), which is why we're encountering an error.

To resolve the issue, I modified the workflow so that it converts the 3rd string element into an integer:
previousVersion = [latestVersion[0], latestVersion[1], int(latestVersion[2]) - 2]

Here is the print statements with outputs:
print(f"Latest version: {latestVersion}, type of third element: {type(latestVersion[2])}") # Outputs: Latest version: 9.6.0, type of third element: <class 'str'> print(f"{latestVersion[0]}, {latestVersion[1]}, {int(latestVersion[2]} - 2") # Outputs: 9, ., 6 previousVersion = [latestVersion[0], latestVersion[1], int(latestVersion[2]) - 2] print(f"{previousVersion}") # Outputs: ['9', '.', 4]

UPDATE:
I updated the previous edit to fix the issue in install latest version

Please let me know if any additional changes are needed.

[jpmcmu]

@error9098x Thank you for the pull request! However, we ended up correcting the issue in a different portion of the code, so this is no longer needed, but please do not hesitate to create PRs in the future.

[error9098x]

@jpmcmu Thanks for letting me know this, sure, I am looking forward to contribute more.