Merge pull request #365 from alltilla/update-metrics-perf-improvement #1155

Job	Run time
create-source-tarball	1m 50s
create-packages / almalinux-8	3m 53s
create-packages / almalinux-9	6m 49s
create-packages / debian-bookworm	6m 12s
create-packages / debian-testing	6m 39s
create-packages / fedora-41	7m 12s
create-packages / ubuntu-noble	8m 48s
	41m 23s

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