[Debian-science-sagemath] givaro/fflas-ffpack/linbox

[Doug Torrance]

On 03/16/2018 05:21 AM, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> On 01/08/2018 02:04 PM, Doug Torrance wrote:
>> On 01/07/2018 02:45 PM, François Bissey wrote:
>>> I feel that I should point out something at this stage.
>>> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24214#comment:17
>>> Upstream has decided to patch the version of linbox in sage
>>> while they are working on a better solution upstream.
>>> However last I have heard there is nothing to show upstream.
>>> So plain upstream linbox will probably break some doctests.
>>
>> Thanks for the heads up!  I'll include the Sage patch when I package linbox.
>>
>>>> On 8/01/2018, at 07:57, Tobias Hansen <thansen at debian.org> wrote:
>>>> Ok, I uploaded givaro to experimental. Thanks for updating it!
>>
>> No problem -- thanks for the upload!
>>
>> Doug
> 
> Hi Doug,
> 
> how's it going with linbox 1.5.2? Once we have that we can slowly start working on sage 8.2.
> 
> (arb and pynac are already updated in git, cython and giac updates would be nice to have but sage 8.2 probably builds without them.)

I've pushed the packaging for linbox 1.5.2 to git [1].  It includes the 
patch from Sage that Francois mentioned.

Would someone be able to take a look and sponsor?

Thanks!
Doug


[1] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/linbox.git