Actions fails when issues is disabled for the repository

[Th3S4mur41]

I disabled the Issues feature for multiple repos in one of my orgs to track all issues through a single repository.
I still want to sync the labels to use in pull requests though.

As a result of disabling the feature, the job is now failing with the following error message:

{
	"message": "Resource not accessible by integration",
	"statusCode": 403,
	"headers": {
		"date": "Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:56:54 GMT",
		"content-type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
		"content-length": "155",
		"x-github-media-type": "github.v3; param=symmetra-preview; format=json",
		"x-accepted-github-permissions": "issues=write; pull_requests=write",
		"x-github-api-version-selected": "2022-11-28",
		"x-ratelimit-limit": "15000",
		"x-ratelimit-remaining": "14997",
		"x-ratelimit-reset": "1733918213",
		"x-ratelimit-used": "3",
		"x-ratelimit-resource": "core",
		"access-control-expose-headers": "ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, X-GitHub-SSO, X-GitHub-Request-Id, Deprecation, Sunset",
		"access-control-allow-origin": "*",
		"strict-transport-security": "max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload",
		"x-frame-options": "deny",
		"x-content-type-options": "nosniff",
		"x-xss-protection": "0",
		"referrer-policy": "origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin",
		"content-security-policy": "default-src 'none'",
		"vary": "Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With",
		"server": "github.com",
		"x-github-request-id": "FB51:3E02AA:4810CF:495386:67596FF6"
	},
	"body": {
		"message": "Resource not accessible by integration",
		"documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/issues/labels#add-labels-to-an-issue",
		"status": "403"
	},
	"method": "POST",
	"endpoint": "/repos/***/issues/346/labels"
}

If possible, the action should detect that the feature is disabled and not fail or alternatively offer an option to choose what to update (issues, pull request, all, or none).

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[Th3S4mur41]

Reproduction is pretty easy...

1. Create an issue
2. Add a label to the issue
3. Close the issue (optional)
4. Disable "Issues" in repository settings (General)
5. Execute the workflow

The workflow will fail with the error above

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Hi, thanks for reporting this.
I just looked through the issue and yeah, this is something that needs to be fixed in github-label-sync, as you noticed.
Thanks for opening Financial-Times/github-label-sync#188

I'll keep this pinned

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@all-contributors please add @Th3S4mur41 for their bug contribution

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I've put up a pull request to add @Th3S4mur41! 🎉