IIB publishing of cert-manager-operator v1.13.0 to OCP v4.15 staging index fails

CVP test for operator bundle includes a test where IIB publishes operator bundle to an ephemeral operator catalog index for each OCP version specified in container image "com.redhat.openshift.versions" label. For cert-manager-operator.v1.13.0 this label value is "v4.13-v4.15"

Currently, the ephemeral catalog index creation via IIB succeeds for OCP v4.13, v4.14 indices but fails for OCP v4.15.

Index Image Location 
  Index image v4.13: registry-proxy.engineering.redhat.com/rh-osbs/iib:614212 
  Index image v4.14: registry-proxy.engineering.redhat.com/rh-osbs/iib:614230
  Index image v4.15: FAILED 

cert-manager-operator-bundle-container-v1.13.0-2

By trigerring CVP pipeline on cert-manager-operator-bundle-container-v1.13.0-2
(or)
Send an API call to IIB with from_image: rh-osbs/iib-pub-pending:v4.15, trying to add 1.13 bundle and request would fail.

#!/bin/bash

# ensure to have kerberos enabled via kinit first
# and local connected to RH VPN
curl --negotiate -u : -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{
    "add_arches": [
        "amd64",
        "arm64",
        "s390x",
        "ppc64le"
    ],
    "binary_image": "registry.redhat.io/openshift4/ose-operator-registry:latest",
    "bundles": [
        "registry-proxy.engineering.redhat.com/rh-osbs/cert-manager-cert-manager-operator-bundle:v1.13.0-2"
    ],
    "from_index": "registry-proxy.engineering.redhat.com/rh-osbs/iib-pub-pending:v4.15"
}' https://iib.engineering.redhat.com/api/v1/builds/add | jq

# output would contain link of iib job logs, opening logs show similar:
time="2023-11-02T08:01:12-04:00" level=error msg="permissive mode disabled" bundles="[registry-proxy.engineering.redhat.com/rh-osbs/cert-manager-cert-manager-operator-bundle@sha256:fd9e8cc4fe1f0c1cb9ed92fcee2336975e2a55a6fc4e65046915c880daebdac6]" error="Invalid bundle cert-manager-operator.v1.13.0, replaces nonexistent bundle cert-manager-operator.v1.12.1"
Error: Invalid bundle cert-manager-operator.v1.13.0, replaces nonexistent bundle cert-manager-operator.v1.12.1

cert-manager-operator.v1.12.1 was actually only added for v4.12, v4.13 and v4.14 index
cert-manager-operator.v1.13.1 addition to v4.15 index fails as 4.15 index doesn't contain older 1.12.1 for replaces to work.

cert-manager-operator.v1.13.1 should be able to be added to v4.15 index without any 1.12 replaces.