DPL: improve exitTransitionTimeout handling

[ktf]

DPL: improve exitTransitionTimeout handling

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Error while checking build/O2/fullCI for 9417227 at 2024-07-26 00:37:

## sw/BUILD/O2-latest/log
c++: error: unrecognized command-line option '--rtlib=compiler-rt'
c++: error: unrecognized command-line option '--rtlib=compiler-rt'
/sw/SOURCES/O2/13331-slc8_x86-64/0/Framework/Core/src/DataProcessingDevice.cxx:148:31: error: redeclaration of '_o2_signpost_id_t cid'
/sw/SOURCES/O2/13331-slc8_x86-64/0/Framework/Core/src/DataProcessingDevice.cxx:150:8: error: base operand of '->' has non-pointer type 'o2::framework::DeviceState'
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

Full log here.

[ktf]

Tested locally it still works. Only reshuffles a bit of code around.