[Debian-science-sagemath] Various build issues with sage 8.9

[Tobias Hansen]

On 9/18/19 5:12 AM, Julien Puydt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le 17/09/2019 à 21:19, Tobias Hansen a écrit :
>> sagemath 8.9.beta9 with Python 3  is in unstable now, but unfortunately only builds successfully on amd64. There are various issues:
> so I can transition all my Python-based package to drop Python 2?

If the python2 packages have no more reverse dependencies yes. You can check with the "handy one liner" from https://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals#Reverse_Dependencies

>> i386:
>> sagemath FTBFS due to https://github.com/linbox-team/givaro/issues/130
>> I just uploaded a new givaro package with the patch from sage, but now there are segfaults during the doctesting in the files:
>> sage -t --long src/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/ell_number_field.py  # Killed due to abort
>> sage -t --long src/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/ell_field.py  # Killed due to segmentation fault
>> sage -t --long src/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/isogeny_small_degree.py  # Killed due to segmentation fault
>>
>> arm64 and ppc64el:
>> segfaults during the doctesting in the file:
>> sage -t --long src/sage/calculus/riemann.pyx  # Killed due to segmentation fault
>>
>> riscv64:
>> There seems to be something wrong with gfan:
>> sage -t --long src/sage/rings/polynomial/groebner_fan.py  # 118 doctests failed
>>
>> armhf, mips64el and mipsel:
>> linbox FTBFS
>>
>> If anyone wants to help looking into any of these issues that would be very welcome!
> I would get in touch with the porter teams : they might have more
> insight than us on what happens there...
>
> JP

It's not that we can't debug these issues, it's just a matter of logging into a porterbox and digging in. It's just some work that needs to be done.

Best,

Tobias