Fixing an issue with update-versions.sh which always blocked CI

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Description

Cherry picks some changes from #361 to allow other PRs to run CI since that PR is marked as DO_NOT_MERGE

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #377 (e16ac01) into branch-23.11 (9b47924) will decrease coverage by 0.01%.
Report is 2 commits behind head on branch-23.11.
The diff coverage is n/a.

Additional details and impacted files

@@               Coverage Diff                @@
##           branch-23.11     #377      +/-   ##
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- Coverage         73.11%   73.11%   -0.01%     
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  Files               382      382              
  Lines             13403    13411       +8     
  Branches           1010     1011       +1     
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+ Hits               9800     9805       +5     
- Misses             3603     3606       +3     

Flag	Coverage Δ
cpp	67.71% <ø> (-1.34%)	⬇️
py	42.06% <ø> (+<0.01%)	⬆️

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