Merge pull request #2304 from KLayout/bugfix/issue-2299 #2224

Job	Run time
Make SDist	19s
build (ubuntu-latest, manylinux, manylinux)	1h 44m 52s
build (ubuntu-latest, musllinux, musllinux)	1h 25m 32s
build (ubuntu-24.04-arm, manylinux, aarch64)	2h 0m 25s
build (macos-14, macosx, macos_arm64, arm64)	1h 7m 40s
build (macos-15-intel, macosx, macos_x86_64, x86_64)	2h 20m 39s
upload_to_test_pypy	33s
upload_to_pypi	0s
	8h 40m 0s

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