On 2018-03-26, 'Martin R' via sage-devel <sage-devel@googlegroups.com> wrote: > 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".
++1! It has happened *repeatedly* spkg that changes in the SageMath core (ostensibly "internal changes", but I still believe that at least some of them were backwards incompatible API changes) broke my group cohomology spkg, so that it didn't even build (fixed by an spkg version that has recently been ready for review) resp. so that it fails tests (before the review could be finished). The spkg used to be optional, but was downgraded to "experimental" when it was decided to break all old-style spkgs. Best regards, Simon -- 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.
