Release v0.15.0

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:robot::package: An automated release PR

This PR was created in response to a manual trigger of the draft-new-release.yaml workflow here: https://github.com/IRNAS/irnas-east-software/actions/runs/6309169796.

The release workflow did the following things:

• created a release/v0.15.0 branch,
• updated the CHANGELOG.md file,
• committed changes,
• pushed release/v0.15.0 branch to remote,
• and opened this PR.

:warning: Important notes

Merging this PR to master will create a new version tag, perform the build release process, create a GitHub release and upload any assets created in the previous process to it. PR back to dev branch will also be created afterwards.

Before merging this PR you can:

• Review and discuss code changes of this PR.
• Pull the created branch to local machine with: git pull origin/release/v0.15.0 and perform last-minute changes. Do not forget to commit and push.

After merging this PR to the master you HAVE to:

• Delete release branch release/v0.15.0
• Merge the second PR to the dev branch to retain release specific changes.

:clipboard: Changelog

Breaking interface changes

• This version of East created breaking changes in the interface. This was done due to the consistency with existing west interface. Changes:
  • east sys-setup was removed and replaced with east install.
  • east install now contains several subcommands, which can be used to install codechecker, toolchain, nrfutil-toolchain-manager, etc.
  • east update is now just a wrapper around west update command.
  • Newly added east init is now just a wrapper around west init command.

Added

• Support for Codechecker, a static analysis infrastructure. Newly added command east codechecker contains several subcommands:
  • Users can now check their Zephyr projects with clang-tidy and clangsa,
  • apply suggested fixes with fixit,
  • store the results of the Codechecker analysis to a server,
  • servdiff - compare the local analysis against the last server analysis,
  • See example codechecker_config.yaml file with example-config,
  • or directly run any Codechecker command with bypass. An effort was made to make the east codechecker check command most useful:
  • Most of the warnings that are reported because of the Zephyr's macros are filtered out.
  • Installation of Codechecker and all its dependencies is seamless, you only need to run east install codechecker.
• Support for generating the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) in SPDX format. To generate SPDX files add --spdx or --spdx-app-only flags to east build or east release respectively. east build command will place SPDX files in the build folder, while east release will generate them for each combination of parameters and place them next to the respective artefacts.
• Add EAST_BUILD_TYPE CMake define to the build and release commands. This define is emitted only if we are building an app with build type functionality (so, it is not emitted for samples). It contains a string, identical to the given --build-type flag.

Fixed

• Build type issue when building app not listed in the east.yaml (#85)
• pykwalify error caused by an empty east.yml (#85)
• Always delete build folder when build settings do not match. (#85)
• Incorrect removal of toolchain when using --force flag. (#85)
• Improve error message when running bypass in non NCS repo. (#85)
• Correctly handle ctrl+c when running east debug. Previously everything broke (yes, everything), when user wanted to stop a running program inside gdb. Essentially the ctrl+c combination was passed twice to gdb, which caused all sort of problems.

Removed

• Conda from list of installed tools. Conda was originally intended to be used as bootstrapping environment, however there was never need for it.