2025-03-06: merge of 24.0 into main
This sweep contains the following MRs:
- !78317 (merged) HLT Calo: Update configuration and add monitoring chains to Physics menu Trigger, TriggerMenu
- !78295 (merged) TrigT1NSWSimTools: PadTriggerLookupTool removal Trigger
- !78093 (merged) Add preliminary MC23g configuration and move tracking config to use it InnerDetector, Tools, Tracking
- !78278 (merged) Projects: update externals to 2.1.16.7 Build, Simulation
- !78279 (merged) Clean up deprecated TrkDetFlags in Geant4MSFollowing Simulation, Tracking
- !78281 (merged) TileMonitoring: run unit tests in private working directory DQ, Tile
- !78280 (merged) Adjust Tier0ChainTests PHYSVAL tests PhysValidation, Tools
- !78274 (merged) DerivationFrameworkCore: Skip locking decorations for an empty container. Derivation
- !78273 (merged) GdbUtils: Fix for btload. Tools
- !78253 (merged) Modernise xAOD JiveXML retrievers Analysis, Egamma, EventDisplay, JetEtmiss, Tau, Tracking
- !78216 (merged) InDetPhysValMonitoringTool: Make redundant member variable local InnerDetector, PhysValidation