Bug#818990: Is it really a flint problem?

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:04:31AM +0200, Julien Puydt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (1) according to:
>  https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=flint&suite=sid
> the version 2.5.2-3 of flint built perfectly on amd64.

yeah, that's a past tense.

> (2) more recently (yesterday) :
>  https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=flint&suite=experimental
> the version 2.5.2-4 of flint built perfectly on amd64.

that's a different version.

> (3) many tests on different amd64 systems (three by myself, and a few others
> from people on #debian-mentors) didn't have any issue with 2.5.2-4 either.

that's still a different version.

Don't try to mix versions thinking it's always the same.

> This suggest the package isn't at fault and the rare systems where the
> failures occurred should be double-checked for the real root of the problem.

Indeed, with the very same chroot, I can build -4, but -3 FTBFS.

Evidently, this:

-        \left|\frac{a_{n-2}}{a_n}\right|^{\frac{1}{2}}, \dots
+        \left|\frac{a_{n-2}}{a_n}\right|^{\frac{1}{2}}, \dotsc

Is enough to fix this bug, and it also makes sense, given that the
failure log we pointed to you fails while doing latex stuff.

I'd say: mark this bug as fixed in that version, add the number to the
changelog and upload to unstable (why in first case that one went to
experimental?)

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