[13_3_X] Fix ROOT backwards compatibility (cms-sw/root#204)

[iarspider]

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[iarspider]

please test

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A new Pull Request was created by @iarspider for branch IB/CMSSW_13_3_X/master.

@smuzaffar, @iarspider, @aandvalenzuela can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@antoniovilela, @sextonkennedy, @rappoccio you are the release manager for this.
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Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-ada326/37449/summary.html
COMMIT: 8298251
CMSSW: CMSSW_13_3_X_2024-02-13-2300/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmsdist/9020/37449/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially added 34 lines to the logs
• Reco comparison results: 138 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 50
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3364261
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 2395
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3361844
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 49 files compared)
• Checked 214 log files, 167 edm output root files, 50 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[smuzaffar]

+externals

@cms-sw/orp-l2 feel free to merge it for 13.3.X

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next IB/CMSSW_13_3_X/master IBs (tests are also fine). This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @sextonkennedy, @rappoccio, @antoniovilela (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[antoniovilela]

+1