Backports to fix 0.18 on 1.11

[KristofferC]

Unfortunately, quite a lot of packages seem to be stuck at ArrayLayouts < 1.0 which errors on 1.11 due to the number of parameters change in the triangular array.

This backports the fixes so that this package passes test on 0.18 so that the packages stuff on older version keep working. Normally I wouldn't bother with this but there were enough packages that I felt it made sense.

A maintainer here would have to:

• create a release-0.18 branch from this commit 449a3e5
• merge this PR into that branch
• make a new release from that merge commit

This should release 0.18.19 which should work on 1.11.

[dlfivefifty]

Maybe I’ve had a few times I many pints tonight but this PR boggles my mind… the current version is v1.9.x but you want to down grade it on the master branch to c0.18.x???

[dlfivefifty]

Ah ok I now saw the comment about the “maintainer” doing a bunch of stuff.

I believe you have admin access through the org. so please feel free to do what needs to be done. Perhaps @jishnub is happy to do this otherwise. (If it’s not clear already: I’m not going to do it.)

it would be good to have a list of the packages stuck on earlier versions to try to get them up dated.

[KristofferC]

Maybe I’ve had a few times I many pints tonight

Cheers ;)

[jishnub]

Unfortunately, this seems to lead to sporadic test failures (https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/ArrayLayouts.jl/actions/runs/8795905802/job/24137784781). The RHS seems completely incorrect (and possibly uninitialized). I haven't been able to replicate this locally.

[dlfivefifty]

Does calling Random.seed!(32324) make it consistent?