fix presubmit

Author: parthea

.github/workflows/unittest.yml

@@ -16,8 +16,17 @@ permissions:
 env:
   BATCH_SIZE: 5
   TEST_ALL_PACKAGES: "true" # Set to "false" to only run tests for packages with a git diff
+  ALL_PYTHON: "['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13', '3.14']"
 
 jobs:
+  # Preserve the workaround for env variables in matrix
+  python_config:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      all_python: ${{ env.ALL_PYTHON }}
+    steps:
+      - run: echo "Initializing test configuration matrix definitions"
+
   # Dynamic package discovery job to calculate required matrix size automatically
   discover-packages:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -71,10 +80,10 @@ jobs:
   unit:
     name: "unit-run (${{ matrix.python }}, Batch ${{ matrix.batch-index }})"
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    needs: discover-packages
+    needs: [python_config, discover-packages]
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python: ['3.9', '3.10', "3.11", "3.12", "3.13", "3.14"]
+        python: ${{ fromJSON(needs.python_config.outputs.all_python) }}
         # Dynamically scales to fit every package perfectly without hardcoding array indices
         batch-index: ${{ fromJson(needs.discover-packages.outputs.batch-indices) }}
     steps:
@@ -264,11 +273,11 @@ jobs:
 
   unittest-runtime-result:
     name: "unit (${{ matrix.python }})"
-    needs: unit
+    needs: [python_config, unit]
     if: always()
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python: ['3.9', '3.10', "3.11", "3.12", "3.13", "3.14"]
+        python: ${{ fromJSON(needs.python_config.outputs.all_python) }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Download Python-Specific Footprints