On 11/11/2018 04:33 PM, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 02:29:31PM +0100, Tobias Hansen wrote: >> GAP 4.10.0 was released and the saegmath team is working on the update >> to GAP 4.10, so it would be better for us to have GAP 4.10 in buster. > Since we agree on GAP 4.10, let us concentrate on libgap.la. > What do you need and how do you plan to proceed ? > Do you need symbol mangling ? > > (by the way, your patch did not work: it only installed libgap.la but not the > actual > library.) > > GAP libgap.la does not do symbol mangling and does not have a fixed ABI, > so maybe it is too soon to ship a dedicated package libgap.deb, but > instead include it in gap-dev or gap-core. > > Cheers,
I don't know. I think as long as no patch for sagemath exists, you can just update gap to 4.10 without including libgap.la. If it will be added to one of the existing packages it should be easy to include the library in a later update. Best, Tobias
