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

[Torrance, Douglas]

On Tue 14 Dec 2021 10:40:02 AM EST, Tobias Hansen <thansen at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

Sounds good!  Linbox actually will need to go through the NEW queue due
to a binary package name change (liblinbox-1.6.3-0 -> liblinbox-1.7.0-0).
I'll upload it to experimental first, and then upload all three to unstable
after it clears NEW.

Doug
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