On Wednesday 04 June 2008, Timothy G Abbott wrote:
> The first bunch of SAGE dependencies entered the Debian NEW queue (the
> queue of packages waiting for review from the Debian ftpmasters before
> they are uploaded to Debian unstable) tonight; by tomorrow I expect that
> that the remaining SAGE dependencies will enter the Debian NEW queue.
>
> I am thus currently optimistic that we will be able to get SAGE 3.0.3 or
> 3.0.4 into Debian Lenny.
>
> There are a few potential issues involved:
>
> - The Debian polybori package is polybori 0.4, which includes a number of
> upstream fixes that made packaging it for Debian easier.  SAGE is still at
> 0.3; I would thus greatly appreciate it if SAGE 3.03 were to be using
> polybori 0.4 as well (this is #3264).
>
> - I've also packaged guava 3.5, which contains a number of upstream fixes
> to various minor packaging problems.  I would really appreciate it if SAGE
> were to upgrade to guava 3.5 so that I can be sure things will be
> compatible (this is #3337).
>
> - I've also packaged sympow 1.019 rather than sympow 1.018; that change is
> negligible and doesn't affect any APIs, so I'm not concerned about this
> breaking things.
>
> - At the moment, I have not uploaded a package for flintqs, because it is
> my understanding that the flintqs spkg will be replaced by the quadratic
> sieve in flint in the not-far-off future.  Correct me if this is not the
> case.  (Ideally, SAGE would do this before but I can live with this not
> being the case).
>
> - At the moment, I have not uploaded a package for linbox_wrap because I
> expect it to be merged into mainline linbox in the next 10 days or so.
>
> If there are likely to be any other dependency spkgs that are scheduled
> for updates in the 3.0.3 or 3.0.4 release cycles, I would like to hear
> about them so that I can plan accordingly.
>
>       -Tim Abbott

Indeed, great work! What is the time frame for e.g. the PolyBoRi update? How 
long do we have?

Martin


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