[Debian-science-sagemath] Sage 8.6 in unstable, please test it!

[Tobias Hansen]

On 1/17/19 11:20 AM, E. Madison Bray wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:39 PM Tobias Hansen <thansen at debian.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I uploaded sage 8.6 to Debian unstable yesterday and the new dependencies are all on their way to migrate to buster soon. Sage itself failed to build on arch:all due to this weird error I haven't looked into yet:
>>
>> dh_strip_nondeterminism: debian/sagemath-doc-es/usr/share/doc/sagemath/html/es/a_tour_of_sage/_static/sageicon.png: debian/sagemath-doc-es/usr/share/doc/sagemath/html/es/a_tour_of_sage/_static/sageicon.png: does not appear to be a PNG at /usr/share/perl5/File/StripNondeterminism/handlers/png.pm line 83.
>>
>> I'm considering to also upload ecl 16.1.3 to unstable after some more testing.
>>
>> It would be nice if everyone could give the package a good test. We have just a few more days to upload updates without review from the release team and in particularly changes that don't fix RC bugs.
> Thank you Tobias.
>
> You're probably already aware, but for ECL 16.1.3 the patch in
> https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22191 will still be required:
> Somewhat to my chagrin it wasn't merged before the 8.6 release despite
> being positively reviewed.  But it's a smallish patch and otherwise
> undisruptive.


Thank you, this wouldn't have been possible without your work!

The patch for ECL 16.1.3 is already applied in 8.6-2.

Best,

Tobias