[Debian-science-sagemath] Getting sagemath back into testing

[Dima Pasechnik]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 6:30 PM Julien Puydt <julien.puydt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi
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> Le lun. 9 nov. 2020 à 16:30, Dima Pasechnik <dimpase at gmail.com> a écrit :
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>> On Mon, 9 Nov 2020, 13:55 Jerome BENOIT, <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:
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>>> On 09/11/2020 14:27, Julien Puydt wrote:
>>> > Le lundi 09 novembre 2020 à 11:49 +0000, Dima Pasechnik a écrit :
>>> >
>>> >> Off-topic, before I forgot - why is giac in Debian/Ubuntu built with
>>> >> static libnauty, rather than the dynamic one?
>>> >
>>> > I've been maintaining the giac package in Debian the recent years, and
>>> > as far as I know, the nauty code in giac is disabled -- neither static
>>> > nor dynamic is used.
>>> >
>>> > Can you tell more?
>>>
>>> Past nauty upstream sources did not build a dynamic library.
>>> I had brought a dynamic nauty library to Debian.
>>> So I guess that the default for giac is to built against a static nauty library (if enabled).
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>> the default for upstream is to link with
>> -lnauty
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>> Upstream has no preference for static linking or disabled nauty - so I gather Debian does something leading to the current state of giac on Debian/Ubuntu in this respect.
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> Something like compiling without any nasty in sight?
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> Is it an actual issue?
not enabling a feature which can be easily enabled looks like an issue to me

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> JP
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