Bug#1112342: transition: flint

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

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On 2025-08-28 18:40:51 +0000, Torrance, Douglas wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Control: affects -1 + src:flint
> X-Debbugs-Cc: flint@packages.debian.org
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> X-Debbugs-Cc: dtorrance@piedmont.edu
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I would like to request a transition slot for flint, which just had a soversion bump from 19 -> 21 with the recent upload of version 3.3.1-1~exp1 to experimental.

Note that flint in experimental FTBFS on armhf. Do you have a fix for
that ready?

Cheers

> 
> It has the following reverse dependencies:
> 
> macaulay2
> msolve
> e-antic
> gyoto
> normaliz
> singular
> polymake
> 
> I tested each of the builds locally, and all were successful except for singular, so binNMUs should be mostly sufficient.  For singular, simple patches to fix the build are already available in the upstream git repository [1, 2] and should be straightforward to backport for a new source upload.
> 
> The auto-generated transition tracker [3] looks correct.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/Singular/Singular/pull/1278
> [2] https://github.com/Singular/Singular/pull/1280
> [3] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-flint.html

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Sebastian Ramacher