This <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/JuxpFfaKYzA> seems seems to be a showstopper, enough to trump the best laid out plans of mice, men and mathematicians.
No ticket yet, but I agree that this seems critical. Le mardi 18 décembre 2018 12:50:44 UTC+1, E. Madison Bray a écrit : > > As pointed out by Samuel last month [1] the transition freeze (i.e. > new package versions) for the next major Debian release (buster) is > coming up January 12 [2]. This is important for Sage and those > working to package Sage for Debian, as it will impact what version of > Sage is available in Debian, and by extension big name Debian-based > distributions such as Ubuntu and Mint that carry with them probably > the majority of users on Linux. > > Setting what version of Sage will be in Debian, prior to the freeze, > is not such a big deal in its own right as not many packages depend on > Sage. However, it does impact what versions of Sage's many > dependencies can be included, and GAP perhaps has the largest impact > there, as there are also many packages that depend on GAP (mostly GAP > packages). > > The biggest sticking point right now to packaging Sage for Debian is > thus what version of GAP can go in Debian as well (and I don't think > the GAP community will be too happy about it if the GAP version gets > held back because of Sage; though the more likely outcome there is > that Sage gets held back (or excluded entirely) if it can't work with > the new GAP). > > Thus some of us have been working hard to find a working convergence > between Sage and GAP 4.10.x. That work is nearly ready [3] (pending > some needed patches to GAP), and given the normal rate of Sage's > release cycle it would be a shame to have this work excluded from Sage > 8.5, considering that it is the major blocker for Debian. > > Therefore I propose doing a few more rounds of Sage 8.5 pre-releases > specifically with the focus of upgrading GAP: Completing #22626 which > I think will be ready-enough by tomorrow (I would prefer to wait until > GAP 4.10.1 is out but starting testing now would be better) and > sending it to the patchbots, while putting a hold on any other > non-critical fixes. > > If for some reason that's impossible then we should quickly release a > Sage 8.6 that is focused primarily on GAP 4.10 compatibility. > > Thanks, > Erik > > > > [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sage-devel/ztLmB2xWFig/kWk7LGycCQAJ > [2] https://release.debian.org/buster/freeze_policy.html > [3] https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22626 > -- 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.
