[Debian-science-sagemath] 7.4 with the latest shiny new packages: 4000 failed tests

[Tobias Hansen]

On 11/03/2016 11:39 AM, Ximin Luo wrote:
> I added some primitive stats-scripts to debian/rules. You can use it to see which files, error types, or stack traces, have the most failures.
> 
> For example, it looks like 1247 of these are (perhaps) linbox related:

Yes and there are 300 more linbox related and another 1000 or so are
failures with NameError that might be also caused by this. I guess when
we fix linbox, the number of failing tests should be managable again.
I'm now at 2800 after applying the pari patches (and using the old
singular package).

There are several upstream linbox bugs where charpoly is mentioned.
There's also this sage issue:
https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/20116

And test-charpoly in linbox fails on i386 in Debian.

I'm just wondering why this started to show with sage 7.4.

Best,
Tobias