Drop local copy of conifer.h in favor of conifer external

[smuzaffar]

This PR removes the local copy of conifer.h in favor of external conifer package. See #42663

This requires cms-sw/cmsdist#8786

[cmsbuild]

+code-checks

Logs: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/code-checks/cms-sw-PR-43125/37388

• This PR adds an extra 16KB to repository

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @smuzaffar (Malik Shahzad Muzaffar) for master.

It involves the following packages:

• L1Trigger/Phase2L1ParticleFlow (l1, upgrade)

@cmsbuild, @epalencia, @srimanob, @AdrianoDee, @aloeliger can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@Martin-Grunewald, @missirol this is something you requested to watch as well.
@antoniovilela, @sextonkennedy, @rappoccio you are the release manager for this.

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[smuzaffar]

please test with cms-sw/cmsdist#8786

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-7033ee/35443/summary.html
COMMIT: b8e145f
CMSSW: CMSSW_13_3_X_2023-10-26-1100/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmssw/43125/35443/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

The following merge commits were also included on top of IB + this PR after doing git cms-merge-topic:

• @saumyaphor4252 Include HcalPFCuts Rcd in Run2,3 offline data GTs #43095

You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-7033ee/35443/git-recent-commits.json
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-7033ee/35443/git-merge-result

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 4 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 2 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 50
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3357400
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3357378
• 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

[aloeliger]

+l1

[smuzaffar]

Milestone for this pull request has been moved to CMSSW_14_0_X.Please open a backport if it should also go in to CMSSW_13_3_X.

[srimanob]

+Upgrade

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next 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