Bug#870688: [Debian-science-sagemath] Sage 8.0 status (was Re: Sage 7.6 upload for RC bugfix and GAP 4.8.7 in unstable)

[Ximin Luo]

-#869778

Ximin Luo:
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> Hi, I see that libgsl23 was uploaded but who is taking care of the library transition? It seems that this process was not followed:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions
> 
> The transition tracker detected the library change:
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-gsl.html
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> However there is no corresponding Transition Tracking bug report:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=release.debian.org
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> Currently this prevents me from doing test builds of sagemath, because some of its build dependencies are not installable [..]
> 

As a temporary workaround:

$ aptitude search '~Dlibgsl2$ ~R^sagemath$ ~rnative' --disable-columns
p  python-cvxopt - Python package for convex optimization                                                      
p  xcas - Computer Algebra System - console and graphical calculator

Since this list is quite small, I've done my own binNMUs of these packages (using sbuild --binNMU etc) and uploaded them to deb-sci-sage. This makes `debian/rules release-deb-sci-sage` work again, I'll run it properly in the morning and report the results.

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