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

[Jerome BENOIT]

On 04/10/18 12:15, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> On 10/04/2018 08:19 AM, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> Tobias Hansen:
>>> On 10/04/2018 06:43 AM, Ximin Luo wrote:
>>>> 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:
>>>>>>>>> [..]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 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 pre+tty 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 ?
>>>>>
>>>> I think that is fine yes.
>>> No, it should conflict with sagemath 8.3. Why not experimental?
>>>
>> 4.1.1p3 is already in experimental. In order to upload 4.1.1p2 to experimental, we would have to version it as 4.1.1p3+actually4.1.1p2 by Debian policy. (As opposed to bumping the epoch, which is now discouraged.)
>>
>> What is wrong with uploading 4.1.1p2 directly to Debian unstable, and then uploading pynac again to force a rebuild? I don't think anything else depends on these.
>>
>> X
>>
> Ok, but then we need to test sagemath 8.3 (with the singular update patch) with these before we do that.

singular 4.1.1-p2+ds is the previous packaged version of singular in experimental.

So, I guess that we have already the material to test.

Jerome

> 
> Best,
> 
> Tobias
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