[Debian-science-sagemath] Bug#844789: charpoly

[Bill Allombert]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 12:54:29AM +0000, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> So the issue seems also related to the patch fix-gzip-stringfile which
> was integrated in the last version of GAP.

Please make sure libgap has this patch applied. Otherwise gzip support
does not work.

> In the header of the patch, we read: `We use pipes for reading gzipped files'.
> What leads me to the question: why we do not use zlib instead ?

It would note make any difference since rewind does not work with zlib either.

Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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