Strange job artifact dependency

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Hi!
We have a test job that generates some artifacts which expire in X time and then we have deploy job after it, which has no dependencies on those artifacts from previous job required, yet it fails when the artifacts are expired. Any ideas what’s wrong here?

fast-tests:
....
artifacts:
    expire_in: 1 week
    when: always
    paths:
      - $(pwd)/videos/**/*.mp4
      - $(pwd)/screenshots/**/*.png

deploy1:
  stage: deploy
  script:
....
  environment:
    name: demo
  when: manual
  only:
    - master

All the irrelevant details have been omitted. When you run that deploy1 job after a week it fails with

This job could not start because it could not retrieve the needed artifacts: fast-tests

The link included on the failed job page leads to ‘dependencies’ keyword in docs, but clearly there is no dependency defined there. Is this a bug?