Bug#849152: sagemath: FTBFS on i386: many tests fail

[Ximin Luo]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:59:24 -0500 "Aaron M. Ucko" <ucko at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: sagemath
> Version: 7.4-3
> Severity: important
> Justification: fails to build from source
> 
> The i386 build of sagemath failed with many test suite errors
> (including some outright crashes), as detailed at
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=sagemath&arch=i386&ver=7.4-3&stamp=1482425583
> 
> Could you please take a look?
> 

This is an issue with python-brial, with the groebner_basis() function, see this

https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-science-sagemath/Week-of-Mon-20161219/000687.html

and the subsequent messages.

I've temporarily allowed the build to pass, ignoring the test failures, to be able to pass the Debian stable release deadline for "new packages in testing". We'll try to fix it properly in the new year.

X

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