The uploaded plugin to the official repo is different than the packaged one

[Guts]

Strange on here:

I'm working on the automatic packaging of a plugin which requires heavy 3rd party packages dependencies (Scikit-Learn) so I've a CI workflow like this:

1. Build dependencies on a Windows VM and store them as artifact
2. Download the artifact
3. Amend the gitignore to make the git archive (working under the hood of qgis-plugin-ci) the usely excluded files (especially pyd files)
4. Package the plugin and save it as artefact --> it works - see this one. You can see that the size of final archive is a bit more/less 6.15 Mo.
5. Deploying the plugin - see log showing dependencies being include:

• ✔️ as github release asset - see here = same expected size

• 🚫 to QGIS plugins official repository - it works BUT the plugin archive does not contain the dependencies = 21 Ko 🤔

Note: I've manually reupdated the archive to plugins.qgis.org so it can't be seen there.

Any idea? Because I'm quite confused...