[Debian-science-sagemath] Fwd: [sage-packaging] Re: sympow 2.0.23.2

[Timo Kaufmann]

Seems like it did not show up on the debian mailing list. Maybe I'm just
too stupid to cross-post.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Timo Kaufmann <eisfreak7 at gmail.com>
Date: 2018-07-25 22:03 GMT+02:00
Subject: Re: [sage-packaging] Re: sympow 2.0.23.2
To: sage-packaging <sage-packaging at googlegroups.com>


Ximin Luo:
> Hi Timo the Debian sage patches are here:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/sagemath/tree/master/debian/patches
>
> Right now there are 2 relating to sympow.

I'm aware of those. However neither seems to be relevant to the sympow
upgrade:

- `u1-workaround-sympow-malloc-pertub.patch` apparently fixes some issue
that
  occurs only if the MALLOC_PERTUB environment variable is set

- `u2-fix-sympow-cachedir.patch` apparently only fixes an issue that occurs
  because the debian test runner does not have write access to HOME

I'll test applying them anyways, just in case. But I don't see how they
would
fix the issue. According to the new sympow maintainer (who also is the
debian
maintainer) Jerome Benoit (https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/3360#comment:22
):

> I am not surprised that it breaks the sage testsuite because the patched
version runs more like any regular program. In fact it must break the sage
related code itself: see the section [SYMPOW Data set](https://gitlab.com/
rezozer/forks/sympow#sympow-data-setup) up for details. Otherwise, since it
works on Debian, I guess it was fixed there. But I am not the one who did
the fix. So you want to check the Debian patches. Feel free to send email
to the Debian Sage Team: the person who did it may guide you.


I hope this email will show up in the debian mailing list. I didn't get your
reply in my inbox and have to answer directly in googles mailing list
interface
on sage-packaging.

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