[Debian-science-sagemath] Bug#835027: pari: please provide PARI 2.8.0[.alpha] in experimental

[Bill Allombert]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 06:31:28PM +0200, Samuel Lelièvre wrote:
> I think PARI has a particular convention about even vs odd minor version
> numbers,
> so 2.7.x and 2.8.x don't work the same.
> 
> See
> http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/faq.html#versioninfo

Exactly so. Old timers might remember that the Linux kernel used the
opposite convention up to the release of Linux 2.6.0

What it mean for PARI is that all pari-2.7.x have the same ABI and
sonames while the pari-2.6.x had different ABI and sonames.

The soname of pari 2.7.x is libpari-gmp-tls.so.4, the soname of 
pari 2.9.x will be libpari-gmp-tls.so.5 but the soname of
pari 2.8.x is libpari-gmp-tls-2.8.so.x (which depends on x).

So the package name 'libpari-gmp-tls4' is not appropriate for
pari-2.8.x

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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