ci: let apt fail over between mirrors instead of hanging

The hosted Ubuntu x64 runners read the archive through
mirror+file:/etc/apt/apt-mirrors.txt. With Acquire::Retries above 0
(including the apt default of 3), a failover from a dead first entry
of that list (connection refused, DNS failure or a stalled host) to
the next entry goes idle: apt-get fetches a few InRelease files from
the second mirror and then waits until the step timeout. With
Acquire::Retries=0 the same failover completes. Seen on noble
(apt 2.8.3) and jammy (apt 2.4.14).

Every apt step this branch hardened now picks the retry count at
runtime, applied to both update and install: 0 when the runner has the
mirror list (moving to the next mirror is the retry), 3 otherwise
(arm64 runners and any host with plain sources keep their retries).
--error-on=any, the http and https timeouts and the step timeouts are
unchanged.

Proof: the step text extracted from the edited _build.yml (update plus
install of zlib1g-dev), run under bash -e in ubuntu:24.04 and
ubuntu:22.04 containers with runner-shaped mirror lists:
- first mirror refused: exit 0 in 8 s / 9 s, every index and deb
  fetched from the second mirror
- first mirror stalled (192.0.2.1): exit 0 in 68 s / 69 s, one 30 s
  timeout each for update and install, then the second mirror
- healthy first mirror: exit 0 in 7 s / 9 s
- no mirror list, plain sources: the prefix keeps Retries=3, exit 0
  in 8 s / 7 s
- every mirror dead: update exits 100 in under 1 s, install skipped
- revert check, the previous step text with a dead first mirror
  (refused or stalled): idle with no Packages index at the 180 s cap
  on both releases

Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
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@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ jobs:
- name: Install build dependencies
if: ${{ matrix.language == 'c-cpp' }}
timeout-minutes: 10
run: sudo apt-get -o Acquire::Retries=3 -o Acquire::http::Timeout=30 -o Acquire::https::Timeout=30 --error-on=any update && sudo apt-get -o Acquire::Retries=3 -o Acquire::http::Timeout=30 -o Acquire::https::Timeout=30 install -y zlib1g-dev
run: APT_RETRIES=3; [ -f /etc/apt/apt-mirrors.txt ] && APT_RETRIES=0; sudo apt-get -o Acquire::Retries=$APT_RETRIES -o Acquire::http::Timeout=30 -o Acquire::https::Timeout=30 --error-on=any update && sudo apt-get -o Acquire::Retries=$APT_RETRIES -o Acquire::http::Timeout=30 -o Acquire::https::Timeout=30 install -y zlib1g-dev
# PR c-cpp: compile the third-party objects (tree-sitter grammars,
# sqlite, mimalloc, lz4, zstd, the tree-sitter runtime: ~1.3 GB of