I narrowed it down to a single commit (which turns out to be a single 
ticket), see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/26929#comment:9

I am unable to debug this further though.

Martin

Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2018 20:57:27 UTC+1 schrieb John H Palmieri:
>
> What is the extent of the bug? Does it require forming a polynomial ring 
> whose coefficients are a BooleanPolynomialRing? That's pretty specific. If 
> the problem arises more generally, with other rings as coefficients, then 
> it could be a blocker.
>
>
> On Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 11:49:30 AM UTC-8, Emmanuel Charpentier 
> wrote:
>>
>> Even considering the pivotal rôle of polynomials and fraction fields 
>> thereof ?
>>
>> Le jeudi 20 décembre 2018 20:47:03 UTC+1, John H Palmieri a écrit :
>>>
>>> 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 
>>>>>
>>>>

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