diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-and-publish-package.yml b/.github/workflows/build-and-publish-package.yml
index 0e0ad36b..07286614 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-and-publish-package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-and-publish-package.yml
@@ -17,10 +17,12 @@ jobs:
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
         python-version: "3.10"
+    # We only build a source distribution because binary distributions for Linux can't be uploaded
+    # to PyPI. Our source distribution is trivial to build anyway.
     - name: Build the source tarball
       run: |
         python -m pip install build
-        python -m build
+        python -m build --sdist
     - name: Store the distribution packages
       uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
       with: