diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/container/gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci/container/gitlab-ci.yml
index 68dd32dac02..e8f4fdb30b2 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci/container/gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/container/gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -282,10 +282,10 @@ alpine/x86_64_build:
     LLVM_VERSION: &alpine-llvm_version 19
   rules:
     # Note: the next three lines must remain in that order, so that the rules
-    # in `linkcheck-docs` catch nightly pipelines before the rules in `pages`
+    # in `linkcheck-docs` catch nightly pipelines before the rules in `deploy-docs`
     # exclude them.
     - !reference [linkcheck-docs, rules]
-    - !reference [pages, rules]
+    - !reference [deploy-docs, rules]
     - !reference [test-docs, rules]
     - !reference [.container, rules]
 
diff --git a/docs/gitlab-ci.yml b/docs/gitlab-ci.yml
index da493902c44..6bc6f4c95b2 100644
--- a/docs/gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/docs/gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@
     - meson compile -C _build
     - meson install -C _build
 
-pages:
+deploy-docs:
   extends: .docs-base
   stage: deploy
+  pages: true
   rules:
     - !reference [.common-rules, rules]
     - !reference [.no_scheduled_pipelines-rules, rules]