There is another problem, which should be treated separately: sometimes doctests of optional packages fail because of newly introduced bugs or modifications in sage core. An example is https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/24827 (now fixed and closed).
I think one point of having the label "optional" is that such regressions are dealt with. In particular, in this case it would be wrong to demote the package to "experimental". Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
