Looks an easy upgrade, but it has to be tested with sagemath, i.e. run sage -tp --all --long with this package installed. Be warned that there will be a few failures due to deprecation warnings in numpy 1.24 which can be ignored (I already have a patch, I'm planning to revbump sagemath 9.7 with upgraded fplll, gap, giac, igraph, pari and brial rebuilt for boost).

@fingolfin: a minor nitpick, something changed in make install for headers. In 4.12.1 it would install a symlink src -> . in /usr/include/gap/. But in 4.12.2 it actually creates a directory and duplicates all the files. Is there a reason for this change?

The update seems to work ok with our sagemath 9.7.

Reason for the change: the Debian maintainer complained about the symlink, implying this would cause all kinds of potential problems... In the end, I really don't care much either way :-). Longterm I hope we can get rid of this hack anyway, perhaps already in GAP 4.13.

Reason for the change: the Debian maintainer complained about the symlink, implying this would cause all kinds of potential problems... In the end, I really don't care much either way :-). Longterm I hope we can get rid of this hack anyway, perhaps already in GAP 4.13.

Ok, so we might as well rm -rf the whole redundant thing (and maybe redo the symlink) in post_install(). Or maybe just ignore, gap-4.12.2 is saving 120MB because datafiles are compressed so 1MB of redundant header files is nothing...