#9530: Improve/fix readline workarounds for Arch Linux and openSuSE
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Reporter: baechler | Owner: GeorgSWeber
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.6
Component: build | Keywords: Arch Linux SuSE readline
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by TheBlackCat):
Replying to [comment:13 drkirkby]:
> > Yes, that is the problem. As it stand now, Sage 4.6 will be released
without being able to build as-is on a major distribution and won't build
reliably on another. We have a small, simple, low-risk fix available
right now. I think it would be good to incorporate the fix now rather
than pushing it back again.
> I've never managed to get any agreement on what is "supported". But it
we believe README.txt, both !ArchLinux and !OpenSUSE are supported.
However, in my opinion we should not hold a release of Sage just because
on Linux distro has bought at yet another backwards incompatible version.
But if a change in Sage has broken one of these systems, then I think it
should be addressed in 4.6. But if the breakages are caused by updated
versions of Linux, then I think these systems will just have to accept
that.
I agree we should not hold a release because of the lack of a fix for a
new break caused by the distribution. However, neither is the case here.
The breakage first appeared in openSUSE 11.2, which was released almost a
year ago. openSUSE 11.3, which also has the problem, was released over 3
months ago. So it is a long-standing issue.
Further, a fix is available, and has been for over 3 months now (shortly
after openSUSE 11.3 was released). The fix was published several weeks
before sage 4.5.2 was released, over a month and a half before 4.5.3.
So this is a long-standing issue for which a fix has been available for a
while. Given that, I do not think holding 4.6 until the existing fix has
been incorporated is outlandish.
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