Use lychee for changelog links

.github/workflows/changelog.yml

@@ -77,7 +77,13 @@ jobs:
       # In order to validate any links in the yaml file, render the config to markdown
       - name: Render .chloggen changelog entries
         run: |
-          make chlog-preview 2> changelog_preview.md
-          cat changelog_preview.md
-      - name: Run markdown-link-check
-        run: make markdown-link-check-changelog-preview
+          mkdir -p ${{ github.workspace }}/tmp
+          make chlog-preview &> ${{ github.workspace }}/tmp/changelog_preview.md
+          cat ${{ github.workspace }}/tmp/changelog_preview.md
+          docker run --rm \
+            --mount 'type=bind,source=${{ github.workspace }},target=/home/repo' \
+            lycheeverse/lychee \
+            --config /home/repo/.lychee.toml \
+            --root-dir /home/repo \
+            --verbose \
+            home/repo/tmp/changelog_preview.md

.lychee.toml

@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ accept = ["200..=299", "403"]
 exclude  = [
     "^https://www.foo.bar",
     # excluding links to pull requests and issues is done for performance
-    "^https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/(pull|issue)/\\d+$"
+    "^https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/(pull|issues)/\\d+$",
+    "^https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/(pull|issues)/\\d+$"
 ]
 
 # better to be safe and avoid failures

Makefile

@@ -73,14 +73,9 @@ markdown-link-check:
 		lycheeverse/lychee \
 		--config home/repo/.lychee.toml \
 		--root-dir /home/repo \
-		-v \
+		--verbose \
 		home/repo
 
-.PHONY: markdown-link-check-changelog-preview
-markdown-link-check-changelog-preview:
-	@if ! npm ls markdown-link-check; then npm install; fi
-	npx --no -- markdown-link-check --quiet --config .markdown_link_check_config.json changelog_preview.md;
-
 # This target runs markdown-toc on all files that contain
 # a comment <!-- tocstop -->.
 #