fronteir client: patch for function arg/return types in frontier_client

[smuzaffar]

see cms-externals/frontier_client#2

[smuzaffar]

please test

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @smuzaffar (Malik Shahzad Muzaffar) for branch IB/CMSSW_12_3_X/master.

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

test parameters:

• addpkg = CondTools, CondCore/Utilities, CommonTools/Utils, Alignment

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-3edf81/21660/summary.html
COMMIT: e8115ea
CMSSW: CMSSW_12_3_X_2022-01-11-1100/slc7_amd64_gcc10
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmsdist/7539/21660/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: 6 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 43
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3461659
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 11
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 1
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3461625
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.004 KiB( 42 files compared)
• DQMHistoSizes: changed ( 312.0 ): 0.004 KiB MessageLogger/Warnings
• Checked 181 log files, 42 edm output root files, 43 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[smuzaffar]

+externals

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next IB/CMSSW_12_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, @qliphy (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)