[Advent bug squashing] various bugs

Hi all, I had some time off to squash a variety of bugs today: * #1058659: active builds for loong64 architecture; * #1058334, #1058220: those were release critical bugs revolving around portability to python3.12, in which some deprecated calls to stdlib functions were made in

[Advent bug squashing] Bug #1058683 : incompatibility between igv and htsjdk

Hello, I fixed bug #1058683, which showed up in igv after an important upgrade of htsjdk. Great idea to improve one's Advent bug squashing metrics: upgrade software, break things, fill bugs, fix them. Best, -- Pierre OpenPGP_signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature