If the list of affected packages grows large, having them sorted
alphabetically helps finding individual packages.


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Since at the moment it is not possible to filter MRs in Gitlab based
on their target branch, we add a label specifying the target branch
manually. In this way, review shifters and release coordinators can
easily filter MRs by their target release.


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cherry-picked from 507b29295bf5dd0d66 [formerly 66fe598885987cc7c3]


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The way how we detect include-directories of Athena packages may
seem a bit complicated. The logic is now described better.


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More descriptive variable names are used in list comprehensions.
Also, the way the log level is set (introduced in 3d42f186) does
not work as expected and has been fixed.


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The 'eval()' function is actually not needed and poses a security
risk. The logging module understands string arguments to the log
level as well.


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Rejected was quite strong. In case changes are really rejected, it
is sufficient to comment and close the MR. There is no need to label
those MR as rejected. In case the MR needs some more work from the
developer the label 'review-postponed' should be added.


Former-commit-id: 69277c8b

All unit tests are labelled in ctest with the name of the package.
For very short package names (e.g. CI) this could lead to false-
positive matches (e.g. LUCID...). This is improved by requiring that
the package should match the beginning of the unit test label.


Former-commit-id: af32abe0

Similar to the rest of the CI scripts, we can make use of the
python-gitlab module which is a neat wrapper around the Gitlab API.
Previously there was a bug when fetching the changes introduced by
a merge request. This is fixed in python-gitlab v0.17. Therefore,
the manual workaround using HTTP requests directly is not needed
any longer.


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This ports the tested CI setup from the aogt8 git repository.


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