On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 10:01 AM Antonio Rojas <nqn7...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > El martes, 18 de diciembre de 2018, 12:50:44 (UTC+1), E. Madison Bray > escribió: >> >> As pointed out by Samuel last month [1] the transition freeze (i.e. >> new package versions) for the next major Debian release (buster) is >> coming up January 12 [2]. This is important for Sage and those >> working to package Sage for Debian, as it will impact what version of >> Sage is available in Debian, and by extension big name Debian-based >> distributions such as Ubuntu and Mint that carry with them probably >> the majority of users on Linux. >> > > Since the GAP 4.10 work is considered done, does it really make that much > difference whether it is in a stable Sage release or not? Can't Debian > packagers simply backport the patch to 8.5? (which is what I'm planning to do > on Arch if it doesn't make it to 8.5)
That is a possibility of course, but not ideal. It results in splitting the community in possibly confusing ways. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
