LALSuite patch release: SWIG, code quality issues, new API linter

Release details

This is intended as a patch release (no API changes) to:

• Rename internal SWIG module to _lal..._swig - MR !2482 (merged)
• Fix code quality issues, especially man pages - MR !2495 (merged)
• Use new expanded API linter including Python API - MR !2519 (merged)

Subpackage releases requested:

• lal
• lalframe
• lalmetaio
• lalsimulation
• lalburst
• lalinspiral
• lalinference
• lalpulsar
• lalapps

Commit information

The release branch is release-20250908.

Complete list of merge requests cherry-picked onto the release branch:

• CI: use artifacts to store API dumps for later comparison (2/2) (!2481 (merged))
• .pre-commit-config.yaml: use version 0.5 of lalsuite-code-quality.git (!2486 (merged))
• Set default minimum Python version in common location (!2487 (merged))
• SWIG: rename internal module which imports SWIG wrappers to _lal..._swig (!2482 (merged))
• common/: list requirements for scripts in requirements-scripts.txt (!2492 (merged))
• CI: install build dependencies in top-level (make distcheck) jobs (!2497 (merged))
• Use ruff for Python code quality (redux) (!2494 (merged))
• Cleanup debian/control.in files - fix https://git.ligo.org/lscsoft/lalsuite/-/issues/806 (!2500 (merged))
• Fix Debian/RPM code quality issues (!2495 (merged))
• CI: fix failing semgrep-sast job (!2506 (merged))
• CI: increase default:retry:max to 2 (!2512 (merged))
• gnuscripts/lalsuite_help2man.am: prevent man files being rebuilt unnecessarily (!2511 (merged))
• CI: various changes to check_library_api script (!2507 (merged))
• Don't require delocate-wheel to be on PATH [ci wheels] (!2510 (merged))
• CI: ensure xz is installed for packaging jobs; check for functioning popen() (!2517 (merged))
• CI: fix C code causing false positives in lint API checker (!2516 (merged))
• Move code quality report checking/concatenation into standalone script (!2521 (merged))
• CI: ensure Git-LFS files are checked out in all jobs working with the Git repo (!2515 (merged))
• CI: remove quay.io/lib images (!2518 (merged))
• CI: run push pipelines only when there is no open merge request (!2524 (merged))
• CI: fix more C code causing false positives in lint API checker (!2525 (merged))
• CI: expand lint:api checks to Python API and list of binaries (!2519 (merged))
• CI: fix API changes table title in lint:api-cmp-last-release (!2526 (merged))
• Fixes for SWIG v4.4.0 (!2529 - merged) • Karl Wette