cancellation-related cleanup #5569

Job	Run time
Build documentation (ubuntu-latest)	1m 13s
Lint (ubuntu-latest)	30s
Build and test (ubuntu-latest, 1.81)	4m 48s
Lint (windows-latest)	1m 44s
Build and test (ubuntu-latest, stable)	3m 24s
Build and test (macos-14, 1.81)	4m 59s
Test archives with a target runner	2m 6s
Build and test (macos-14, stable)	2m 38s
Build and test (windows-latest, 1.81)	7m 26s
Build and test (windows-latest, stable)	6m 34s
Test archives with a runner (destination) (ubuntu-24.04, ubuntu-latest)	5s
Test archives with a runner (destination) (windows-latest, windows-latest)	21s
	35m 48s

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