Source: pari Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
it appears that the current sage[math] (version 7.3) cannot build against PARI 2.7, while is might against PARI 2.8.0.alpha . As a lot of dependencies of sage[math] and sage[math] itself depend on PARI, having PARI 2.8 around would greatly ease the effort of the Deabian Sage Team [1] to bring sagemath into Debian. Currently an ad hoc pari-sage package [1,2] is used by us (the Debian Sage Team) for development, but this is bad policy and we wish to use the common pari package as soon as possible for obvious reasons. At this stage, it is not clear whether or not any patch meant to please sagemath is needed. To start, let assume that no such patch is needed. Our long term plan is to stick to the stable version of PARI (but for now we need the coming stable version to step forward). Thanks, Jerome [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Sage [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/pari-sage.git -- System Information: Debian Release: Jessie* APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.7-ckt20-0001-mbp62 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)