On 3/25/20 8:28 PM, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 03:02:48PM +0100, Tobias Hansen wrote:
>> On 3/25/20 1:08 PM, Bill Allombert wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:47:17PM +0100, Tobias Hansen wrote:
>>>> Hi Bill,
>>>>
>>>> is pari 2.11.4-pre1 going to be released soon? Otherwise, could you
>>>> please consider backporting the patch for the Debian package? sagemath
>>>> was removed from testing today because I'm waiting for this bug to be
>>>> fixed before I do an upload fixing RC bugs.
>>> I plan to release 2.11.4 in May, and 2.11.4-pre1 two weeks before.
>>> If this is too late for you I can do something, but to be honest,
>>> Sagemath is making this bug RC completly artificially.
>>> Why not disable the test until that ?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>> Of course I can disable the test that is timing out and ignore the
>> other failures, but that leaves some functionality in pari and
>> sagemath broken. Normally it's better to just fix bugs. If you confirm
>> that you prefer to wait for pari 2.11.4 with this I will go ahead and
>> disable the test.
> We need to check that the fix for this bug do not create regressions,
> and this takes time.
> Indeed this bug occured while fixing another.
>
> If I release 2.11.4-pre1 on April 3, would that be OK ?
>
> Cheers,

Sure, but that means that the fix would only be in Debian with the release of 
2.11.4 in about three weeks right? Then I should still disable the test in 
order not to have a broken sagemath all this time.

Best,

Tobias

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