diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index df97d556..54990301 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -149,21 +149,6 @@ fedora-build:
     paths:
       - build
 
-fedora-distinfo:
-  stage: deploy
-  needs:
-    - fedora-build
-  script:
-    - .gitlab-ci/export-artifact-path build > dist.env
-  artifacts:
-    reports:
-      dotenv: dist.env
-    paths:
-      - build
-      - dist.env
-  rules:
-    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_TAG'
-
 fedora-dist:
   stage: deploy
   needs:
@@ -180,14 +165,10 @@ fedora-dist:
 
 fedora-dist-tarball:
   extends: fedora-dist
-  needs:
-    - fedora-distinfo
   artifacts:
     expose_as: 'Get tarball here'
     paths:
-      - $TARBALL_ARTIFACT_PATH
-    reports:
-      dotenv: dist.env
+      - build/meson-dist/$CI_PROJECT_NAME-$CI_COMMIT_TAG.tar.xz
   rules:
     - if: '$CI_COMMIT_TAG'
 
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/export-artifact-path b/.gitlab-ci/export-artifact-path
deleted file mode 100755
index f9a7534f..00000000
--- a/.gitlab-ci/export-artifact-path
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/gjs -m
-// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Florian Müllner <fmuellner@gnome.org>
-//
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
-
-import Gio from 'gi://Gio';
-import {programArgs, programInvocationName, exit} from 'system';
-
-const [buildDir] = programArgs;
-if (!buildDir) {
-    printerr(`usage: ${programInvocationName} <build-dir>`);
-    exit(1);
-}
-
-const subprocess = Gio.Subprocess.new(
-    ['meson', 'introspect', '--projectinfo', buildDir],
-    Gio.SubprocessFlags.STDOUT_PIPE);
-const [, out] = subprocess.communicate_utf8(null, null);
-
-const {descriptive_name, version} = JSON.parse(out);
-print(`TARBALL_ARTIFACT_PATH=${buildDir}/meson-dist/${descriptive_name}-${version}.tar.xz`);