Backport of [NET-11150] ci: fix conditional skip and add safeguard into release/1.4.x

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Backport

This PR is auto-generated from #4363 to be assessed for backporting due to the inclusion of the label backport/1.4.x.

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Adopt a third-party action to avoid script bugs, and to fix a current issue where the script fails to detect all changes when processing push events on PR branches.

Adapted from hashicorp/consul-dataplane#637. See that PR for testing details and background context.

How I've tested this PR

See hashicorp/consul-dataplane#637 and conditional skip output in this PR's checks.

How I expect reviewers to test this PR

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Checklist

• Tests added
• CHANGELOG entry added

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