no with:

username: ${{ secrets.PACKAGES_USER }}
          password: ${{ secrets.PACKAGES_TOKEN }}

.forgejo/workflows/deploy.yaml

@@ -35,11 +35,7 @@ jobs:
           buildkitd-flags: '--allow-insecure-entitlement network.host'
           driver-opts: network=host
       - name: Lint test
-        with: 
-          username: ${{ secrets.PACKAGES_USER }}
-          password: ${{ secrets.PACKAGES_TOKEN }}
         run: |
-          echo ${{ secrets.PACKAGES_USER }}
           registry=${{ github.server_url }}
           registry=${registry##http*://}
           repository="$(echo "${{ github.repository }}" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')"

update-version.sh

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jq ".version = \"$new_version\"" package.json > temp.json && mv temp.json packag
 # Optional: Commit and tag
 
 # echo ${secrets.PACKAGES_USER}
-# git config --global user.name ${{ secrets.PACKAGES_USER }}
+git config --global user.name giteaAdmin
 git add package.json
 echo "adding succeeded"
 git commit -m "Bump version to $new_version"