Hello, On Tue, 06 May 2008, Timothy G Abbott wrote: > I've been working on packaging for Debian SAGE (http://sagemath.org), a > large free mathematics software conglomeration that is competing with > proprietary mathematical software systems such as Mathematica, Matlab, > Maple, and Magma (Debian bug #455292).
Thanks for your work on SAGE. We do need to make SAGE available more widely. > The primary problem that makes my packages > potentially unsuitable for uploading to Debian now is many of them may > violate Debian library policy: Last time I looked at the problem of packaging SAGE, there was one other issue. SAGE required certain libraries/programs to be "fixed" at certain upstream versions (with/without additional patches) in order to ensure compatible behaviour. For example, SAGE wanted a particular version of "gpari" with some patches. The actual version of "gpari" in Debian is different. If this has changed, then please correct me. Otherwise, it raises a host of issues which would cause the package(s) to be incompatible with Debian. This aspect of SAGE seemed to make it more appropriate for a Custom Debian Distribution rather than a package. It may be easier to start this way in any case given the complexity. Over time, after co-ordinating with the developers of SAGE dependencies within Debian it should be possible to fold all the packages back into Debian. (Ref: demudi and texlive) Regards, Kapil. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
