Bug#1112342: transition: flint
On Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:03:50 +0200 Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> wrote:
> On 2025-08-28 18:40:51 +0000, Torrance, Douglas wrote:
> > 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?
Yes, there's a patch in Salsa ready to go for the next upload:
https://salsa.debian.org/math-team/flint/-/blob/0447f70/debian/patches/builtin-overflow.patch
> > 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.
A new release of singular including these patches was just uploaded to sid, so a binNMU should now be sufficient for it as well.
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