On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 07:08:49PM +0100, Julien Puydt wrote: > Package: pari-gp > Version: 2.7.2-1 > Severity: wishlist
Hello Julien, > While trying to use the debian package in sagemath, it turned out > two things were lacking to make it work: > - they use anal.h ; This is a private header file, there is no good purpose to include in the binary package. If SAGE really needs it, they should just copy the part they need. There is not interface garanty anyway. > - they also have backported patches to add cb_pari_err_handle from > upstream's repository (see end of this mail). > > Can we get those in debian too? This patch is breaking the ABI and API, thus this is not possible to apply it. Beside SAGE could do the same thing without patching PARI, by using the standard PARI error trapping mechanism (iferr_env and global_err_data). This would be much better. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
