Originally I thought we should remove the build and test steps in favor of the
“meson dist” step. But, then we lose verbose build command lines and access
to the test logs, and having the failing test logs readily available is
critical.
So, instead, let’s make the “meson dist” step not repeat the work that was
already done in earlier steps. The Meson manual even documents the --no-tests
flag precisely for our use case:
> The meson dist command has a --no-tests option to skip build and tests steps
> of generated packages. It can be used to not waste time for example when done
> in CI that already does its own testing.
From https://mesonbuild.com/Creating-releases.html
fixes https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/5145
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