On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 05:27:25PM -0500, Daniel Dickman wrote:
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>
> > On Nov 23, 2018, at 2:39 PM, Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > The math/pari port remains at version 2.1.7 from 2005 (!). In the
> > meantime, upstream has released a stream of new versions up to
> > 2.11.0 earlier this year. If there is so little interest in
> > maintaining the port, we might as well delete it.
>
> there were a few attempts to update it but their were some perl dependencies
> that have never been updated if i remember and so pari could not be updated.
>
> i’d rather delete those perl dependencies and update pari than delete pari.
>
There is a somehow "long" chain of reverse dependencies.
- math/pari
- math/p5-Math-Pari
- math/p5-Math-BigInt-Pari
- security/p5-Crypt-Random
- security/p5-Crypt-DH
- security/p5-Crypt-Primes
- security/p5-Crypt-RSA
- security/p5-Crypt-OpenPGP
I see that math/p5-Math-Pari recently got upstream update (15 Sep 2018:
2.030507)
According to the README of Math-Pari, it means the perl module should fully
support at least pari-2.3.4:
Integer part and the first 4 digits after the point in the version
of Math::Pari reflect the latest version of GP/PARI it was tested with.
(2.01080* still fully supports only 2.1.7, but mostly works with 2.3.*
too.)
It is a good thing, as latest pari update was stopped at the latest 2.1.*
version because of incomptabilities with 2.3 branch.
--
Sebastien Marie
