[Debian-science-sagemath] linbox, pynac and arb (was Re: givaro/fflas-ffpack/linbox)

[Tobias Hansen]

On 03/24/2018 11:46 PM, Doug Torrance wrote:
> 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
>

Just uploaded, thank you!

For pynac and arb we have to decide which versions to use for now.

pynac: sage uses 0.7.16 and prepares an update directly to 0.7.18 (#24838) and we have 0.7.17 in git.
arb: sage uses 2.12 and the update to 2.13 (#24927) could take a while since it's blocked by several other tickets and we have 2.13 in git.

Is it ok if I just upload pynac 0.7.16 and arb 2.12 to experimental for now Julien? We could also use pynac 0.7.18 and apply the patch from the ticket. I wouldn't start using arb 2.13 just yet.

Best,
Tobias