[Debian-science-sagemath] Nearly released; but ell_rational_field has lfunction/sympow failures

[François Bissey]

> On 14/12/2016, at 16:23, Ximin Luo <infinity0 at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Ximin Luo:
>> I built 7.4-1 for Debian experimental, it failed with 89 test failures. However, I think I have fixed 12 of them, which takes it below our arbitrary "80 failed tests" limit and I am now rebuilding it. I will upload this to NEW in the morning.
>> 
>> However, we do need to fix the following before we re-upload to unstable:
>> 
>> 30+ of those test failures are from ell_rational_field.py, the direct failures in that file (17) are attached. It seems related to lfunction or sympow. 
>> 
>> [..]
> 
> Maaaybe this is because sympow craps out when it can't write to ~/.sympow. I've logged into the schroot session where sbuild is working and manually created this directory now, so `sympow` at least works. I'm going to bed, will report back with the results in the morning.
> 

Sounds likely. simpow will create a number of data files
and in debian and Gentoo we create them in ~/.sympow.

François