[Debian-science-sagemath] Sage 8.4 and Debian buster

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 03/10/18 19:02, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Tobias Hansen:
>> On 10/01/2018 05:50 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>>>
>>> On 30/09/18 23:03, Tobias Hansen wrote:
>>>> On 09/30/2018 05:47 PM, Julien Puydt wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Le 30/09/2018 à 15:19, Tobias Hansen a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>>> - I'll upload brial 1.2.4 to experimental soon. (Julien, it seems like you forgot to push the upstream and pristine-tar branches, could you do that please if you have them?)
>>>>> Oups... Done!
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>>> - One needs to rebuild pynac against the singular version in use.
>>>>> Is there more to do than the upload you did a few days ago?
>>>>>
>>>> We have to figure out what to do with singular (upload 4.1.1p2 to experimental or fix the problem otherwise) and then upload pynac 0.7.22 with a dependency on the new singular version to experimental.
>>>
>>> Singular 4.1.1p3 is in experimental, I guess I can package 4.1.1p2: can we downgrade in experimental ?
>>>
>>> Jerome
>>
>> I don't know. If you want to avoid increasing the epoch you could just try and see if the upload gets rejected.
>>
> 
> I think for experimental you will have to use something like 4.1.1p3+actually4.1.1p2, epochs are now discouraged by Policy for "downgrade" purposes, see:
> 
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.html#version-4-1-5
> 
> I'm fairly sure you can upload to unstable a version X even if X < what's in experimental as long as it's > what's in unstable. I'm pretty sure I've done that before with rustc, e.g. uploaded 1.15.1-3 to unstable even though experimental had 1.16.1-1~exp1.

May we upload Singular 4.1.1p2 to Sid ?

Jerome


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