[Debian-science-sagemath] FLINT 3 transition

[Dima Pasechnik]

I can help with packaging Sage - but of course we should aim for the latest, 10.3.x, not the hugely outdated 9.x.



On 9 January 2024 05:32:52 GMT, "Torrance, Douglas" <dtorrance at piedmont.edu> wrote:
>On Mon 18 Dec 2023 05:15:41 PM +01, julien.puydt at gmail.com wrote:
>> Le samedi 16 décembre 2023 à 21:35 +0000, Torrance, Douglas a écrit :
>>> I noticed that lots of math packages are failing to build now that
>>> FLINT 3
>>> is in unstable.  Here's a link to the transition tracker:
>>> 
>>> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-flint.html
>>> 
>>> I figured I'd send a note out to the team to help coordinate our
>>> efforts.
>>> 
>>> Arb, antic, and calcium are now included in FLINT, so I suppose it
>>> would make
>>> sense to remove these packages, and maybe list libflint-arb-dev,
>>> libantic-dev,
>>> and libcalcium-dev under libflint-dev's "Provides" going forward?
>>> 
>> 
>> I checked: we can't use Provides: in flint's d/control because it does
>> provide the include files of those projects, but not in the same
>> directory. If there were pkgconfig files, perhaps that would have
>> flown, but that's not the case.
>> 
>> So we need all rdeps of flint to switch to version 3. We can ask for
>> the removal of flint-arb, antic and calcium as soon as the other
>> packages in unstable don't depend on them. For calcium, that means now.
>> 
>> For antic, that has to wait until calcium is out, now that I uploaded
>> an e-antic which doesn't depend on it.
>> 
>> For flint-arb, gyoto and sagemath depend on it so need versions not
>> depending on it.
>
>I just NMU'ed a new gyoto package that builds against flint instead of
>flint-arb, so we're a little closer now.
>
>I guess sagemath is the big remaining task, but it has lots of other issues,
>too.  It looks like FLINT 3 will be supported in Sage 10.3.  Has there been any
>work on updating Sage recently?  It's at version 9.5 in unstable, uploaded last
>February, and was removed from testing in September due to several RC bugs.
>
>Doug