[Debian-science-sagemath] FLINT 3 transition

[Tobias Hansen]

That would be really appreciated.

The package could really benefit from a restart by someone more familiar with how to best build sage nowadays.

I'm happy to answer any questions about the package.

Best wishes,
Tobias

On 1/9/24 09:24, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> I can help with packaging Sage - but of course we should aim for the latest, 10.3.x, not the hugely outdated 9.x.
>
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> 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
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