Re: SolveSpace update ready for review and sponsor

2022-05-30 Thread Anton Gladky
I have reviewed and uploaded the package! Thanks!

Anton

Am Mo., 16. Mai 2022 um 19:32 Uhr schrieb Ryan Pavlik :
>
> Hello Debian Science!
>
> I have prepared an updated package for SolveSpace, which I help
> develop/maintain, which recently put out its 3.1~rc1 release with
> substantial improvements. I have updated the package's git repo on
> salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/solvespace  and also
> pushed to Mentors: https://mentors.debian.net/package/solvespace/
>
> Since we now have upstream tarballs with the submodules included, we
> can now easily use debian/watch aka uscan to do the whole "getting new
> versions" thing, and we now use files-excluded in d/copyright to
> exclude mainly submodule files we don't want in our source package
> (Windows binaries, software already packaged in debian, generated
> doxygen files, etc.). Most of the patches I made for the last package
> release have now been integrated upstream, and only a few small new
> ones were needed, which are already submitted upstream. I also added
> lintian overrides for the false-positive checks, which does leave a
> few info/warning messages active, so I have a few things to improve in
> the future. However, it would be good to get this in. I did mostly
> test on Bullseye so it actually should be backportable easily too.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Ryan Pavlik
>



Re: Incoming new flint 2.9.0 ==> beta1 in experimental

2022-05-30 Thread David Bremner
"Torrance, Douglas"  writes:

> On Thu 19 May 2022 08:47:24 AM EDT, julien.pu...@gmail.com wrote:
>> version beta1 of flint 2.9.0 is out, with big changes announced.
>>
>> I could already check it would have broken flint-arb, and uploaded a
>> version with a patch to unbreak it. [A new upstream flint-arb will
>> follow the flint release, but I didn't want any temporary hard ride.]
>>
>> I uploaded 2.9.0~beta1-1 to experimental so everyone could have a look,
>> check and report for issues (here first, I'll forward to upstream if
>> necessary). 
>
> Great -- thanks for the heads up!
>
> I checked and Macaulay2 builds without problems using the flint 2.9.0 package 
> in experimental.
>
> Doug

polymake also builds fine, although because many things still depend on
the old libflint, it pulls in two versions of libflint (although only
the one libflint-dev), which is a bit unnerving, but I guess is OK.