Until version 1.24.4 provided archive was usable.

Since version 1.25.0 changelog states:

The constructed source-distribution archive is no longer available as a
release artifact. Please instead use the per-release repository archive
attached to a GitHub release, or clone the repository at the desired release
tag.

But this one is NOT usable

-- Computing the current release version...
fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /dev)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/dev/shm/extras/BUILD/mongo-c-driver-1.25.0/build/cmake/../calc_release_version.py", line 400, in <module>
    RELEASE_VER = previous(main()) if PREVIOUS else main()
                                                    ^^^^^^
  File "/dev/shm/extras/BUILD/mongo-c-driver-1.25.0/build/cmake/../calc_release_version.py", line 320, in main
    head_commit_short = check_output(['git', 'rev-parse', '--revs-only',
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/dev/shm/extras/BUILD/mongo-c-driver-1.25.0/build/cmake/../calc_release_version.py", line 136, in check_output
    raise subprocess.CalledProcessError(ret, args[0])
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'git' returned non-zero exit status 128.
CMake Error at build/cmake/BuildVersion.cmake:43 (message):
  Computing the build version failed! [1]:Call Stack (most recent call first):
  build/cmake/BuildVersion.cmake:50 (compute_build_version)
  CMakeLists.txt:5 (include)

Adding the VERSION_CURRENT is a workaround, but build fails later

Configuration error:
There is a programmable error in your configuration file:Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/sphinx/config.py", line 343, in eval_config_file
    exec(code, namespace)
  File "/dev/shm/extras/BUILD/mongo-c-driver-1.25.0/src/libmongoc/doc/conf.py", line 13, in <module>
    from sphinx_design.dropdown import DropdownDirective
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sphinx_design'