Re: GAP 4.13.0 uploaded to unstable

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 11:32:39AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello Bill, thanks for the email.
> 
> It appears that most of the GAP package for which I feel responsable
> fail tests with gap 4.13.0 because `TestPackageAvailability` now returns
> a path that terminate with thh path separator `/`; for example:
> "/usr/share/gap/pkg/io/" (gap 4.13) instead of "/usr/share/gap/pkg/io" (gap <4.13).

This come from upstream git commit:

commit 1fec8ac7506f54eac2ddf1703f56da814e338c58
Author: Fabian Zickgraf <f.zickgraf@dashdos.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 31 08:12:10 2022 +0100

    Normalize package paths to always contain a trailing slash

so its seem purely intentional.

Why do the tests use TestPackageAvailability and not LoadPackage ?

Cheers,
Bill.