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

[Bill Allombert]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 11:05:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> >>> Upstream send me the attached patch which fix this problem.
> >>> Please confirm this address the original issue.
> > 
> > I deposited a patched version of GAP at deb-sci-sage (4r8p6-1+sage23).
> > 
> > The test
> > 
> > ( cd sage; ./sage -t --long src/sage/interfaces/gap.py )
> > 
> > passes now. But, in a previous email, Ximin seems to speak about a work around.
> > So, for plain confirmation, Ximin will gives the final answer.
> > 
> 
> The work-around was just to uninstall gap-autpgrp (and the other packages with old manuals) when running sage and its tests.
> 
> Thankfully, I can confirm this patch works, even when gap-autpgrp is present.

Thanks, I will upload GAP with this patch to Debian soon.

Cheers,
Bill.