On 2015-02-18 17:59, Bruno Grenet wrote:
It would be nice for both Debian and Sage to have Sage
included in Debian.
Nice, yes, but not at any cost. There are advantages, but we should also
consider the disadvantages.
The fact that Sage could only use stable, unpatched versions of packages
would be a major disadvantage.
If Debian doesn't ship the latest stable version of package X, and Sage
needs this latest version, a ticket is opened on Debian side to upgrade
package X. It doesn't slows Sage development (that is done using the
development version, built from sources), simply slows a bit the upgrade
of Sage to its latest stable version in Debian!
But then you can never test Sage in Debian. If the Sage you release
today will appear in Debian next year, then you will only find out *next
year* if something breaks. So it wouldn't really solve any problem. The
result would be a broken and outdated version of Sage in Debian, not
something to look forward to.
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