That doesn't tell us why Maxima thiks that this is a Cauch principal value. 
In fact :
sage: integrate(1/cos(theta)^2,theta)
tan(theta)
which I remind having learned when I was about 15...

Maxima bug ?

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Emmanuel Charpentier

Le vendredi 20 octobre 2017 08:39:03 UTC+2, Ralf Stephan a écrit :
>
> The immediate reason is that maxima returns:
> Principal Value
> (%o4)                                  2
>
> and Sage since #7377 (7 years ago) catches "Principal Value" and makes it 
> divergent.
> See https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/7377 for reasons this was introduced.
> There are tickets that urge to fix this:
>
> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/13511
> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17608
>
> So it's a Sage bug in the Maxima interface.
>
> Regards,
>

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