[Debian-science-sagemath] New Givaro and FFLAS-FFPACK releases

[Tobias Hansen]

On 12/14/21 12:08 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 11:23 AM Jerome BENOIT <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 14/12/2021 11:55, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, 10:40 Torrance, Douglas, <dtorrance at piedmont.edu <mailto:dtorrance at piedmont.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     The Linbox team just released new versions of Givaro [1] and FFLAS-FFPACK
>>>     [2].   Is it okay to upload these to unstable, or would that be disruptive to
>>>     Sage?  It looks like some patches may be necessary -- see [3].  Note that the
>>>     release candidates have been in experimental for a little while already.
>>>
>>>
>>> apparently all you need is a Singular patch, to remedy a header conflict:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/Singular/Singular/commit/18bb792edcc6d3f65af0111f93ed61118123ffd1 <https://github.com/Singular/Singular/commit/18bb792edcc6d3f65af0111f93ed61118123ffd1>
>> This patch seems to be purely aesthetic: some #define are translated.
> It should move
>
> #define IntegerDomain 1
>
> into "private" space, and is meant to be processed with `factory/bin/makeheader`
> I'd say such files should not be named `*.h`, but rather something
> like `*.h.in`.
>
> Dima
>
If Jerome wants to apply this patch I would say you could update these packages before I upload sagemath 9.4.

The opposite order would also work, then sagemath just has to be rebuilt.

Best,

Tobias