[Debian-science-sagemath] Sage 8.6 in unstable, please test it!

[E. Madison Bray]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:39 PM Tobias Hansen <thansen at debian.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I uploaded sage 8.6 to Debian unstable yesterday and the new dependencies are all on their way to migrate to buster soon. Sage itself failed to build on arch:all due to this weird error I haven't looked into yet:
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> dh_strip_nondeterminism: debian/sagemath-doc-es/usr/share/doc/sagemath/html/es/a_tour_of_sage/_static/sageicon.png: debian/sagemath-doc-es/usr/share/doc/sagemath/html/es/a_tour_of_sage/_static/sageicon.png: does not appear to be a PNG at /usr/share/perl5/File/StripNondeterminism/handlers/png.pm line 83.
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> I'm considering to also upload ecl 16.1.3 to unstable after some more testing.
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> It would be nice if everyone could give the package a good test. We have just a few more days to upload updates without review from the release team and in particularly changes that don't fix RC bugs.

Thank you Tobias.

You're probably already aware, but for ECL 16.1.3 the patch in
https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22191 will still be required:
Somewhat to my chagrin it wasn't merged before the 8.6 release despite
being positively reviewed.  But it's a smallish patch and otherwise
undisruptive.