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

[François Bissey]

> On 14/12/2016, at 17:18, Jerome BENOIT <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:
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> On 14/12/16 03:25, François Bissey wrote:
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>>> On 14/12/2016, at 16:23, Ximin Luo <infinity0 at debian.org> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>>> However, we do need to fix the following before we re-upload to unstable:
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>>>> 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. 
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>>> 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.
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>> Sounds likely. simpow will create a number of data files
>> and in debian and Gentoo we create them in ~/.sympow.
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> For Debian, sympow was patched to create data on the fly in such
> a way it is transparent for the final user [1].
> I have no idea if it was applied to Gentoo.
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I stole a patch from Debian 6-7 years ago…

François