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ci: avoid running the test suite _twice_
This is a late amendment of 19ec39a (ci: stop linking the `prove` cache, 2022-07-10), fixing a bug that had been hidden so far. The bug is that the `.prove` cache stores information about previous `prove` runs (`save`) and uses them (`slow`, to run the tests in the order from longer-running to shorter ones). This bug can cause some surprising behavior: when the Prove cache contains a reference to a test script, subsequent `prove` runs (with `--state=slow`) will run the same test script again even if said script is not specified on the `prove` command-line! So far, this bug did not matter. Right until d8f416b (ci: run unit tests in CI, 2023-11-09) it did not matter. But starting with that commit, we run `prove` _twice_ in CI, and with completely different sets of tests to run. Due to the bug, the second invocation re-runs all of the tests that were already run as part of the first invocation. This not only wastes build minutes, it also frequently causes the `osx-*` jobs to fail because they already take a long time and now are likely to run into a timeout. The worst part about it is that there is actually no benefit to keep running with `--state=slow,save`, ever since we decided no longer to try to reuse the Prove cache between CI runs. So let's just drop that Prove option and live happily ever after. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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