chore: fixes for metadata export #1035

Job	Run time
mypy check on linux (3.8)	47s
lint commit message	27s
mypy check on linux (3.9)	53s
mypy check on linux (3.10)	49s
mypy check on linux (3.11)	53s
pytest on linux (3.8)	1m 41s
mypy check on linux (3.12)	1m 3s
pytest on linux (3.9)	1m 38s
pytest on linux (3.10)	1m 31s
pytest on linux (3.11)	1m 31s
linting-linux	6s
merge current tag to main branch	0s
build python package	0s
conda package build (and upload if release)	0s
test coverage	0s
publish python package	0s
	11m 19s

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