A new Pull Request was created by @diemort (Gustavo Silveira) for CMSSW_12_0_X.

It involves the following packages:

• Geometry/VeryForwardData (geometry)

@civanch, @Dr15Jones, @makortel, @cvuosalo, @ianna, @mdhildreth, @cmsbuild can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@bsunanda, @fabferro, @jan-kaspar, @fabiocos this is something you requested to watch as well.
@perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy you are the release manager for this.

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• Backported from Fixes for PPS geometry on Stations #35399

@cmsbuild please test

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-a33a50/18902/summary.html
COMMIT: da3b0a0
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_0_X_2021-09-24-1100/slc7_amd64_gcc900
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/35400/18902/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: 0 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 39
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 2998564
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 2998542
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 38 files compared)
• Checked 165 log files, 37 edm output root files, 39 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

+1

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_12_0_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_12_1_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @perrotta, @dpiparo, @qliphy (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

urgent

backport of #35399

+1

• Backporting the same xml geometry configs merged in the master