> On Nov 24, 2018, at 3:13 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2018/11/24 07:20, Sebastien Marie wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 05:27:25PM -0500, Daniel Dickman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Nov 23, 2018, at 2:39 PM, Christian Weisgerber <na...@mips.inka.de>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The math/pari port remains at version 2.1.7 from 2005 (!). In the
>>>> meantime, upstream has released a stream of new versions up to
>>>> 2.11.0 earlier this year. If there is so little interest in
>>>> maintaining the port, we might as well delete it.
>>>
>>> there were a few attempts to update it but their were some perl
>>> dependencies that have never been updated if i remember and so pari could
>>> not be updated.
>>>
>>> i’d rather delete those perl dependencies and update pari than delete pari.
>>>
>>
>> There is a somehow "long" chain of reverse dependencies.
>>
>> - math/pari
>> - math/p5-Math-Pari
>> - math/p5-Math-BigInt-Pari
>> - security/p5-Crypt-Random
>> - security/p5-Crypt-DH
>> - security/p5-Crypt-Primes
>> - security/p5-Crypt-RSA
>> - security/p5-Crypt-OpenPGP
>>
>>
>> I see that math/p5-Math-Pari recently got upstream update (15 Sep 2018:
>> 2.030507)
>>
>> According to the README of Math-Pari, it means the perl module should fully
>> support at least pari-2.3.4:
>>
>> Integer part and the first 4 digits after the point in the version
>> of Math::Pari reflect the latest version of GP/PARI it was tested with.
>> (2.01080* still fully supports only 2.1.7, but mostly works with 2.3.*
>> too.)
>>
>> It is a good thing, as latest pari update was stopped at the latest 2.1.*
>> version because of incomptabilities with 2.3 branch.
>
> All seem pretty dead to me. I'm not a big fan of bundling outdated pari
> into p5-Math-Pari unless really necessary, I'd favour removing these p5-*
> things (could re-add them later if this proves to be a problem but
> it seems unlikely).
ok daniel@ to remove all these perl ports.
