Github runner -latest labels should be differentiated

[jackjansen]

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The problem with the -latest label on a runner OS is that such a label can mean two things (and sometimes I want it to mean one, and sometimes I want it to mean the other, and I can't imagine that I'm the only one):

• conservative: the tools you can expect on a downstream OS of that type if the user has kept things up to date,
• bleeding edge: the latest version of the tools that are available for that OS.

If I'm building primarily for deploying myself I probably want the latter. But if I'm building source distributions that people can just build on their machines I probably want the former.

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