[Debian-science-sagemath] GAP: issue related to compressed manual.six: PATCHES: reproducing issue

[Bill Allombert]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 07:25:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> +Bill and the bug back in
> 
> 
> Thanks Jerome, now I can reproduce this issue. In fact the problem is with gap-autogrp. If I install

No it is not in gap-autogrp. Any package with an old-style .six file
will do. 

> $ zcat /usr/share/gap/pkg/AutPGrp/doc/manual.six.gz | head -n3
> C autpgrp.tex 1. Introduction
> C method.tex 2. The automorphism group method
> F 2.0. AutomorphismGroup
> 
> I know nothing about GAP but this does not look like the other manual
> files, which all start with:

There are two formats of .six files, the old and the new. Both are
correct. The GAP library uses different code path to read them.
One of them involves closing the pipe before emptying it which
cause a "broken pipe" in gzip wwhich work fine unser GAP but not
nder sage.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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