On Friday, 26 December 2025 at 12:33:25 UTC-8 [email protected] wrote: it is a Fedora bug all right, and they just pulled ecl in a recent release.
It's an indirect bug. I think ECL was retired in FC 41 or FC 42 (I've just checked and I have ecl-23.9.9-3.fc40.x86_64 on my fc42 system). So the system was probably upgraded and fedora doesn't always remove retired packages upon upgrade. I guess it's an unsupported configuration to just have some random old packages still installed and Fedora's upgrade path seems to make it really easy to end up with such unsupported configurations. The fact that Fedora can't find someone willing to maintain their ECL package and that they therefore retire it is unfortunate but not really a bug in Fedora. In fact, it's not even a problem for building sage! Just the fact that there's a legacy ecl lying around that is no longer functioning properly that is causing the problem. I guess that's what "sudo remove-retired-packages" is for: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/#sect-clean-up-retired-packages -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/d77a4eea-3543-4bc6-9020-cf79a029de61n%40googlegroups.com.
