master-broken incidents causing empty auto-deploy packages and a high build pressure

• Related to: gitlab-org/quality/engineering-productivity/master-broken-incidents#17835 for the broken spec. The fix is in gitlab-org/gitlab!209559 (merged)
• Another issue is the failing rubocop job: gitlab-org/quality/engineering-productivity/master-broken-incidents#17816 (closed). The fix is in gitlab-org/gitlab!209587 (merged)

This issue is created to track the hours the deployments are blocked.

Patch release were also blocked by the first listed master-broken incident since the security MR pipelines are failing.