#1149740 gap-alnuth: FTBFS: Error, no 3rd choice method found for `SplittingField' on 1 arguments

#1149740#5
Date:
2026-10-02 19:09:13 UTC
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To:
Dear maintainer:

During a rebuild of all packages in unstable, this package failed to build.

Below you will find the last part of the build log (probably the most
relevant part, but not necessarily). If required, the full build log
is available here:

https://people.debian.org/~sanvila/build-logs/202610/

About the archive rebuild: The build was made on virtual machines from AWS,
using sbuild and a reduced chroot with only build-essential packages.

If you cannot reproduce the bug please contact me privately, as I
am willing to provide ssh access to a virtual machine where the bug is
fully reproducible.

If this is really a bug in one of the build-depends, please use
reassign and add an affects on src:gap-alnuth, so that this is still
visible in the BTS web page for this package.

Thanks.
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[...]
# Expected output:
<algebraic extension over the Rationals of degree 48>
# But found:
Error, no method found! For debugging hints type ?Recovery from NoMe\
thodFound
Error, no 3rd choice method found for `SplittingField' on 1 arguments
########
########> Diff in ./tst/polynome.tst:30
# Input is:
FactorsPolynomialAlgExt( K, f );
# Expected output:
[ x_1^2+x_1+!1 ]
# But found:
Error, Variable: 'K' must have a value
########
     250 ms (37 ms GC) and 53.5MB allocated for polynome.tst
testing: ./tst/userprefs.tst
      33 ms (33 ms GC) and 929KB allocated for userprefs.tst
-----------------------------------
total       662 ms (184 ms GC) and 143MB allocated
              7 failures in 1 of 6 files

#I  Errors detected while testing

grep -q "^#I  No errors detected while testing" debian/gap.tst
make: *** [debian/rules:11: build-indep-stamp] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess failed with exit status 2
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#1149740#10
Date:
2026-10-02 19:46:20 UTC
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To:
reassign 1149740 src:gap-radiroot
quit

Good catch Santiago, but this is actually a missing Depends in one of the
build-dependency (gap-radiroot).

Reassigning,
Cheers,
Bill

#1149740#19
Date:
2026-10-02 20:34:41 UTC
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To:
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gap-radiroot, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1149740@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> (supplier of updated gap-radiroot package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:52:17 +0200
Source: gap-radiroot
Architecture: source
Version: 2.10-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Changed-By: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Closes: 1149740
Changes:
 gap-radiroot (2.10-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * debian/control:
     - Add Depends on gap-transgrp, remove gap-polycyclic
       Closes: #1149740. Thanks Santiago Vila.
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