Re: Reducible thue() might be missing solutions

[Karim Belabas <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

* Bill Allombert [2014-05-10 20:08]:
> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 07:09:12PM +0200, Karim Belabas wrote:
> > 1) Here's a minimal fix for 2.7.*
[...]
> Which you applied to pari 2.7.1.
> 
> Thus, should I make a 3rd prerelease of pari-2.7.1 with this change ?

I'm afraid so.

It's a nasty bug: besides a number of minor consequences, it breaks thue(),
which users could rely on in publications. And breaks it in a bad way:
we return incomplete answers to a difficult problem, which is
impossible to check without an altenate implementation.

There's no point releasing a stable version containing a known grave bug.
Especially when the fix is a 2 lines patch.

Cheers,

    K.B.
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