Re: Reducible thue() might be missing solutions

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

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 09:14:05PM +0200, Karim Belabas wrote:
> * 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.

Done. I will send a more formal announcement tomorrow once the build logs
have ran.

Cheers,
Bill.