[Debian-science-sagemath] Required tasks for sage in stretch

[Ximin Luo]

Tobias Hansen:
> On 11/09/2016 08:10 PM, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> Tobias Hansen:
>>> * ecl - the one fix I applied does not migrate to testing due to a
>>> deadlocked situation with libatomic-ops (unfixable (?) RC bug). Maybe
>>> this can be resolved by asking for removals of libatomic-ops packages
>>> for the failing architectures from testing. Since the RC bug is also in
>>> testing, the package should then migrate, right?
>>>
>>
>> Could you go into some more details on this? I can try to help.
>>
> 
> libatomic-ops has the RC bug #728955 since three years. There is a patch
> from Ubuntu but the maintainer Ian Wienand did not apply it, saying
> upstream says the patch does not really fix the problem. He also said
> "It's unfortunate that the number of people who understand power memory
> ordering issues at the level required can probably be counted on one
> hand." so it sounds hard to fix. I wrote him a mail today, asking if we
> should ask for removal of the testing packages from armel and ppc64el to
> allow the package to migrate to testing.
> 

I see. That sounds best. I see Emilio from the release team replied there not too long ago, we could make this request directly on that ticket.

Separately, shall we package ECL 16.1 for Debian? That is what Sage are using. It might make the maxima upgrade easier.

I'll do some more research about FASL and ping Camm about it again.

Separately, have you guys seen TclErrors about DISPLAY not being set? I'm getting that on my remote build machine. I'll see if it's easy to fix, if it's too hard then we can hack around it using xvfb.

X

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