Critical but it's not a blocker, in my opinion.
On Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 11:36:15 AM UTC-8, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > 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.
