chore: address comments

Author: timefold-release

.github/workflows/release-1.x.yml

@@ -76,9 +76,12 @@ jobs:
       # Technically, this goes against the main reason for doing a dry run; to eliminate potential problems.
       # But unless something catastrophic happened, PR checks on source branch already ensured that all tests pass.
       - name: Set release version and build release
+        env:
+          NEW_VERSION: ${{ inputs.version }}
+          DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dryRun }}
         run: |
-          ./mvnw -Dfull versions:set -DnewVersion=${{ github.event.inputs.version }}
-          ./mvnw -Dfull deploy -DskipTests=${{ github.event.inputs.dryRun }} -DaltDeploymentRepository=local::default::file://`pwd`/target/staging-deploy
+          ./mvnw -Dfull versions:set -DnewVersion="$NEW_VERSION" -DgenerateBackupPoms=false
+          ./mvnw -Dfull deploy -DskipTests=$DRY_RUN -DaltDeploymentRepository=local::default::file://`pwd`/target/staging-deploy
           cp docs/target/antora.yml docs/src/antora.yml
           git add docs/src/antora.yml
           find . -name 'pom.xml' | xargs git add