Version bump for dependencies, fix ubuntu-latest missing version problem

[btgoodwin]

Description

Ticket(s) Addressed:

• Error: could not find a distro configuration matching Ubuntu, 24.04 #216 - Ubuntu latest vs. 22.04 problem

Design Summary

As pointed out in #216, ubuntu-latest was struggling at one point, so we're pinning this to 22.04 as the suggested fix.

There have also been several dozen dependabot attempts at updating dependencies for the last year or so with every action build pipeline being broken beginning farther back than that. This PR attempts to bring all this up-to-date in a working state.

NOTE: Soon™️ this repository will likely be archived/removed because our organization's use of it has moved to a different workflow of building GStreamer with our own plugins via Cerbero and then ingesting those build artifacts into our other application pipeline(s).

Configuration changes:

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Testing Notes and Procedure

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Related Pull Requests

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[btgoodwin]

If anyone wants to continue looking into this, what I've noticed so far is:

1. Downloads/fetches are very flakey where we have to re-run jobs manually a few times in order to re-attempt downloads.
2. The Ubuntu build using Cerbero fails in different spots, sometimes fetch-package, sometimes package. It's again something similar, where downloads will fail requiring you to re-run the job just to re-attempt the download until it succeeds, and then the whole process continues much farther.

In both cases, there isn't much we can do other than make every job have a retry count.

I've run out of bandwidth to dedicate to the ubuntu side of this. If someone wants to carry this forward, I recommend pulling an ubuntu-22.04 docker image, run apt update and then install npm, nodejs, and git. After that you should be able to clone this branch and run:

npm install
export INPUT_VERSION=1.26.8
node index.js

With any luck you'll be able to start debugging the next parts of index.js that need to be updated to support Ubuntu again. The steps that are included there right now roughly match those in the ci folder of cerbero.

Before submitting a patch though, you will need to run npm run prepare to update and git commit dist with your other changes so that the action can pass the dist test.