runner improvements and signal bugfixes #5522

Job	Run time
Build documentation (ubuntu-latest)	1m 43s
Build and test (ubuntu-latest, 1.81)	5m 54s
Lint (ubuntu-latest)	33s
Build and test (ubuntu-latest, stable)	4m 13s
Lint (windows-latest)	37s
Build and test (macos-14, 1.81)	4m 28s
Build and test (macos-14, stable)	4m 27s
Build and test (windows-latest, 1.81)	8m 21s
Build and test (windows-latest, stable)	8m 45s
Test archives with a target runner	2m 11s
Test archives with a runner (destination) (ubuntu-24.04, ubuntu-latest)	12s
Test archives with a runner (destination) (windows-latest, windows-latest)	21s
	41m 45s

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