On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 03:09:26PM +0100, Julien Puydt wrote: > Le 20/03/2013 14:25, Bill Allombert a écrit : > >On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:53:56AM +0100, Julien Puydt wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>in fact, looking at the pari 2.5.3 in sage, there are quite a few > >>patches in it, some of which might be interesting for upstream... > >>and which are needed to build sage. > > > >I know, this is why I think it is premature to package SAGE for Debian. > >Time would be better spent improving the packaging of SAGE components inside > >SAGE so there is no random patching. > > They have a particular patch (polred.patch) which does more than > packaging modifications ; its description in patches/README.txt is: > > * polred.patch: Fix polred(), add polredbest() based on upstream commits > - 2d00a24fbb1ffe8eba35b9a04763e36eef8a5f7b > - a3596c56f9439144a0dbed4c47bd6ff9485e3fc8 > - 1a00ca416de4daebccaab2be1a4b8a061a9f2fde > - ad550d9bbfee8113087407c3262bffc27a020c98
This changes the library ABI. Instead, Sage could write its own PARI extensions without patching libpari. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
