Re-add patches to propagate lhe numbering through herwig

[Dominic-Stafford]

Re-adds the necessary Herwig patches to read numbers from an LHE file, which were initially added in #8349, then reverted in #8417 due to an issue with multithreading.

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @Dominic-Stafford for branch IB/CMSSW_13_3_X/master.

@cmsbuild, @smuzaffar, @aandvalenzuela, @iarspider can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @antoniovilela, @rappoccio you are the release manager for this.
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[smuzaffar]

test parameters:

• pull_request = Herwig lhe matching fix (including multithreading fixes) cmssw#42673
• relvals_threading = 512.0
• enable = threading

[smuzaffar]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-d7f3da/34512/summary.html
COMMIT: 4ea037c
CMSSW: CMSSW_13_3_X_2023-08-28-2300/el8_amd64_gcc11
Additional Tests: THREADING
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week0/cms-sw/cmsdist/8670/34512/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 17 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 2 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 48
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3153095
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 3
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3153070
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 47 files compared)
• Checked 207 log files, 159 edm output root files, 48 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[smuzaffar]

+externals

this should only be merged with cms-sw/cmssw#42673

[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. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @antoniovilela, @rappoccio (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[iarspider]

please test workflow 535.0,537.0,538.0

[smuzaffar]

ah has been merged with this PR. let force merge this too

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-d7f3da/34639/summary.html
COMMIT: 4ea037c
CMSSW: CMSSW_13_3_X_2023-09-04-2300/el8_amd64_gcc11
Additional Tests: THREADING
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/8670/34639/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:

• @ArturAkh Replace the access to track reference with a more robust approach cmssw#42690
• @Dominic-Stafford Herwig lhe matching fix (including multithreading fixes) cmssw#42673

You can see more details here:
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-d7f3da/34639/git-recent-commits.json
https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-d7f3da/34639/git-merge-result

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially added 33 lines to the logs
• ROOTFileChecks: Some differences in event products or their sizes found
• Reco comparison results: 30 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 51
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3156228
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 1982
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3154224
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 50 files compared)
• Checked 213 log files, 165 edm output root files, 51 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found