Optimize apt update calls
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This introduces a new local GitHub action for installing Debian
packages. I noticed that it often takes several minutes to install a
few small packages, and a large part of that time is spent updating
the man page database:
2025-09-20T11:39:25.3001853Z Setting up yapf3 (0.33.0-1) ...
2025-09-20T11:39:25.3045329Z Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.39-0ubuntu8.5) ...
2025-09-20T11:39:25.4420933Z Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build2) ...
2025-09-20T11:41:42.8522570Z Processing triggers for install-info (7.1-3build2) ...
Excluding the documentation files should make the man-db run much
faster. Compare these two runs:
* Before: 2m 41s, see
https://github.com/google/comprehensive-rust/actions/runs/17879390708/job/50845084995.
* After: 11s, https://github.com/google/comprehensive-rust/actions/runs/17880418155/job/50847334471
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This introduces a new local GitHub action for installing Debian packages. I noticed that it often takes several minutes to install a few small packages, and a large part of that time is spent updating the man page database:
Excluding the documentation files should make the man-db run much faster. Compare these two runs: