[12.4.X] Fix Tracker Alignment overlap validation

[mmusich]

backport of #39035

PR description:

As per suggestion at #39031 (comment)

PR validation:

script compiles (notice that I need to include 98d8b94 in order to make it compile under python3)

If this PR is a backport please specify the original PR and why you need to backport that PR. If this PR will be backported please specify to which release cycle the backport is meant for:

verbatim backport of #39035 needed for tracker alignment purposed.

[mmusich]

type trk, bug-fix

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @mmusich (Marco Musich) for CMSSW_12_4_X.

It involves the following packages:

• Alignment/OfflineValidation (alca)

@malbouis, @yuanchao, @cmsbuild, @saumyaphor4252, @francescobrivio, @ChrisMisan, @tvami can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@mmusich, @adewit, @tocheng, @tlampen this is something you requested to watch as well.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy, @rappoccio you are the release manager for this.

cms-bot commands are listed here

• Backported from Fix Tracker Alignment overlap validation #39035

[mmusich]

@cmsbuild, please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-c7bea4/26777/summary.html
COMMIT: 41dadc7
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_4_X_2022-08-11-2300/el8_amd64_gcc10
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/39042/26777/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• No significant changes to the logs found
• Reco comparison results: 2 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 50
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3677242
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 7
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 1
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3677212
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.004 KiB( 49 files compared)
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 312.0 ): 0.004 KiB MessageLogger/Warnings
• Checked 208 log files, 45 edm output root files, 50 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[tvami]

+alca

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_12_4_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_12_5_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy, @rappoccio (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[qliphy]

+1