Prepare release of Gauss v56r8 for Sim10d

This release is based on Gauss v56r7.

Build to allow for new feature in generators. Requires changing from Sim10c to Sim10d because of:

• not applying acceptance cuts for products of all long lived particles and not just a subset

Introduce back Powheg, to run it in production requires a new DecFiles release and PowhegData release.

For detailed list of all MR refer to milestone.

Will use new release of LHCb v53r9p7 and Run2Support v2r2p6

cc: @kreps, @mwhitehe, @admorris

changed milestone to %Sim11/2025.03 (Gauss v60r1)

changed milestone to %Sim10/2024.05 (Gauss v56r8)

changed the description

LHCb v53r9p7 and RunSupport v2r2p6 ready to be deployed via lhcbstack

assigned to @gcorti

Gauss v56r8 ready to be deployed

Triggered release build in lhcb-core/lhcbstacks!240 (merged)

closed