[Debian-science-sagemath] Sage 7.5 and Singular patches

[Tobias Hansen]

On 03/11/2017 03:22 PM, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Tobias Hansen:
>> On 03/10/2017 12:57 PM, Ximin Luo wrote:
>>> Tobias Hansen:
>>>> Thanks! All the singular related test failures I reported last time are
>>>> gone except the one attached to this mail. That means we don't have any
>>>> timeouts or segfaults anymore, just normal failures. Mostly ones that we
>>>> already had for 7.4.
>>>>
>>>> [..]
>>>
>>> Hey, shall we release this soon? I can do a test build over the weekend as well.
>>>
>>> X
>>>
>>
>> Yes, sure. I'm traveling until Monday and can't do much until then.
>>
>> The new 3D plotting with threejs works, but it loads threejs from the
>> web. Can we leave it like that for experimental? Otherwise we need to
>> either disable it or backport the patches from Sage 7.6 for using a
>> local version of threejs. And update the threejs package.
>>
> 
> I think if upstream do that then we should stick with it, but I'll see if I can trivially patch in a "warning notice" somewhere in the UI.
> 
> Afterwards, we can immediately begin packaging 7.6.beta directly after we release 7.5.1, and possibly have 7.5.1 in unstable with 7.6.beta in experimental.
> 
> I think this is better, since it means we'd stay mostly-ahead rather than mostly-behind. (I'm also suggesting this approach for the Debian rust team.)
> 
> X
> 

I think we should not upload new versions to unstable during the freeze,
to keep the possibility to fix RC bugs in testing via unstable, no?
Whether we want to package beta versions depends a lot on how much
manpower and motivation we have, since that is even more work than just
uploading every stable release. I'd be already happy if we upload every
stable release (to unstable, during the freeze to experimental),
possibly using beta or rc versions when working on a package for a new
sage version.

Best,
Tobias