[sage-devel] Re: please schedule a rebuild for sagemath on alpha architecture

2010-08-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
> > My understanding is that upstream is very unhappy with the fact that > Debian is shipping an old version, as it generates support requests for > something that they don't want to support (3.0.5 was released on > 2008-07-11). > Right. One of the points we have drive home to the users is that if

[sage-devel] Re: please schedule a rebuild for sagemath on alpha architecture

2010-08-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
> Kamaraju, > > Overall I like your plan.  And I'd like to help. > > I do not like starting with version 3.0.6.  I think such an old version > is unlikely to attract many users and hence testing will be suboptimal. > In addition, upstream reports that upgrading to 4.5 is currently broken > (http://