On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 04:17:55AM +0000, Jerome Benoit wrote: > Package: gap > Version: 4r8p3-2 > Severity: important > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > the Sage[Math] [1] gap interface currently fails to invoke help (? > Whatever) > when the involved manual.six file is compressed and has the default > format: > a closer look shows that the very first character is eatean, hence the > failure. > Removing the patch debian/patches/fix-compressed-six-files fixes the > issue, > while its seems to not affect GAP itself. Unfortunately, I have not yet > figured a simple way not involing Sage[Math] doctests to reproduce the > issue. > Please consider to discard this patch in order to render Sage[Math] > ready > before the freeze.
I did not check it, but in my view this is backward: Sage is expecting the first byte to be (incorrectly) eaten, as is the case of the upstream GAP (this is a regression wrt GAP 4r4), so it compensates for this by adding a dummy byte at the start before compressing the file. So Sage should be patched not to add a dummy byte at the start. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
