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has caused the Debian Bug report #702623,
regarding Maxima in sage is built against ecl
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Package: maxima
Version: 5.29.1-1
The maxima used in sage is built with ecl, while the sage in debian
isn't. That will of course be a problem to package sage ; a very simple
fix would be to just compile maxima with ecl in debian.
But of course, simple doesn't mean correct : I saw #661803 where someone
asks for an sbcl-built maxima, so the situation is going to be a pain if
each and everyone wants maxima built against some variant of common lisp...
I don't know how to handle the situation gracefully, so I open this bug
CCing debian-science to discuss the matter.
Thanks,
Snark on #debian-science
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From: Camm Maguire <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Bug#702623: Maxima in sage is built against ecl
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:11:21 -0400
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Greetings, and thank you so much for your report!
As the thread has uncovered, going down this route leads to enormous
system complexity and a maintenance nightmare. Furthermore, it is
unclear why sage should care at all how maxima was built as long as it
passes its tests. Hopefully, sage treats maxima as a modular externally
provided program. If not, I'm reasonably confident I can make a sage
package for Debian which does so, if there is interest. The
self-contained module approach is the only sane way to go about this in
my opinion.
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