Bug#906796: [Debian-science-sagemath] Bug#906796: sagemath: Sage crashes at startup (segfault in pari modules)

[Doug Torrance]

On 08/21/2018 04:13 AM, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> Control: block -1 by 905434 905300
> 
> This is expected after a major pari update. sagemath 8.3 is almost ready to be uploaded, major things we have to do:
> 
> - fix build failures in fpylll and gfan
> - fix at least the 24 failing sagemath doctests in sage/repl/ipython_kernel/install.py [1]
> 
> If gfan 0.6.2 can't be fixed we could still use version 0.5...

I forwarded the gfan build failure upstream a few weeks ago but haven't 
gotten a response yet.  I've tried debugging it on my own but haven't 
figured anything out yet.

The build failure is from a test failing on 32-bit architectures.  We 
could always just skip that test on those architectures for a short-term 
fix.  I can work on that later.

Doug