[Bug 822896] Review Request: pari-elldata - PARI/GP Computer Algebra System elliptic curves

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822896

--- Comment #13 from Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > Paul, I have been repeatedly reading over the rationale for this
> > "Conflicts:", but still fail to understand it.
> > 
> > Could you try to elaborate/summarize it? Which problem is this trying to
> > resolve?
> > 
> > Without this "Conflicts:", I would likely have approved these packages ;)

> it says that the elldata package requires "PARI/GP 2.2.11 and up", or in
> other words, it's not compatible with earlier versions of pari.
Understood, but AFAIS, these are mere data packages, right? 

Do they disturb older releases of pari?

> I can't add
> a "Requires:" for this version as that would create a circular build
> dependency (I want to be able to use this data package in pari's %check), so
> the conflict seems to be the best way of expressing this relationship.
I think, these data packages should not "require pari" nor should they
"conflict:", but be treated as arbitrary and independent data packages.

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