Bug#864831: [Debian-science-sagemath] NTL update to 10.3.0

[Julien Puydt]

Le 01/09/2017 à 00:03, Ximin Luo a écrit :
> Thanks for that. I forced the rebuild to continue by skipping the flint tests with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck sbuild --profiles=nocheck <etc>, and am pleased to report that singular and pynac built (including tests) successfully.

That is good news, but since FLINT saw problems, they may be hidden.

> If the flint maintainer doesn't fix this "soon" then perhaps we can just disable that one test for the short-term to allow this transition to go forward.

I'm not sure it is a good idea to push things forward: Bill (main
developer) said those tests only pass data to NTL, let it do the
calculation and get the result back. If those conversions are
problematic, the root can be:
- NTL changed something and it wasn't intentional, so NTL will need a fix ;
- NTL changed something and it was intentional, so FLINT will need a fix.

In either case, there is a good chance that this change will break
things also higher up the stack : FLINT is just an early warning sign,
and ignoring it is wrong.

I suggest to wait for a diagnosis before planning anything.

Snark