[Debian-science-sagemath] Bug#844789: iS: issue related to compressed manual.six

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 04:57:45AM +0000, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> It appears that atomic_write is not involved:
> I was confused by the fact the test-command runs several gap sessions
> that log to the same file, hence the confusion.
> If to each processed gap session is associated a specific log file,
> the issue remain but atomic_write appears not involved.

Can you generate a full strace dump ?

> Let open an other front:
> my understanding is that six files are generated, why obsolete six files are still around ?

There are two generators: 
1) the old ones are generated by etc/gapmacro.tex using TeX
2) the new ones are generated by GAPdoc using GAP.

Cheers,
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