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-name: Backport merged pull request
-on:
-  pull_request_target:
-    types: [labeled]
-permissions:
-  contents: write      # so it can comment
-  pull-requests: write # so it can create pull requests
-jobs:
-  backport:
-    name: Backport merged pull request
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    # For security reasons, we don't want to checkout and run arbitrary code when
-    # using the pull_request_target trigger. So restrict this to cases where the
-    # backport label is applied to an already merged PR.
-    if: github.event.pull_request.merged && contains(github.event.label.name, 'backport')
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - name: Create backport pull requests
-        uses: korthout/backport-action@v1