[Debian-science-sagemath] <DKIM> Re: Library transition freeze coming up on November 5

[Julien Puydt]

Hi,

On 10/10/2016 15:12, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
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> Ok,
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> On 10/10/16 14:04, Julien Puydt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 10/10/2016 13:55, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>>> On 10/10/16 06:01, Julien Puydt wrote:
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>>>> Jérôme, can you get in touch with upstream and get things
>>>> straight?
>>>
>>> I have contacted the upstream Sollya team about this very issue
>>> (and others): 0] they are very cooperative; 1] they are working on
>>> a Release Candidate that may support fplll version 5, this RC is
>>> not public (private ?) but they give me access to it and I am
>>> working on it with them.
>>>
>>> Is Sollya already part of Sage ?
>>
>> That isn't about sage: sollya is part of Debian unstable and depends
>> on fplll, so to push fplll 5.x.y in unstable, we need a library
>> transition, and that has to happen before the freeze.
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> I understood this part of the story; I was just curious.
>
> Here Sollya may not be the issue, but gap-float should be as the upstream maintainer
> does not have the extra time necessary to migrate to fplll 5:
> is it possible to maintain a libflll4-dev for a while (read: beyond the freeze) ?

Well, there was a soname bump going from fplll 4 to fplll 5, so there is 
a libfplll0 and a libfplll2 ; that part is compatible.

I'll need some mentoring : I have no clue how to make a new version 
4.0.4-3 with a new binary libfplll4-dev, while there is already a 
5.0.1-1 and a 5.0.2-1 :-/

Snark