> In the past, Tim Abbott asked to be cc'ed on threads like these. I > think his primary difficulty is keeping up with all the dependencies > of sage, especially when sage releases with a patched version of a > dependency that has not made it upstream yet. Debian package > maintainers are unlikely to quickly apply such patches for the > unstable or testing branch, although they might for the experimental > branch. > > Earlier there was some discussion of creating an environmental > variable that would attempt to build sage with system versions of the > libraries and other dependencies, rather than the versions shipped > with sage. Did anything come of that? > Nothing came out of that, but it would be useful to us packagers. There are things to carefully consider. Time as always is the biggest obstacle to anything like that.
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