Hi, > > Disclaimer: I'm not a debian user and my intend is not to launch a > > flame nor to disregard the hard work that has been done to have a > > sage debian package. > > > > However, during sage days 20 as well as during my course at the > > university of Rouen, I've got at least a dozen reports of people > > trying to install sage with the standard "dpkg -i". Everything, looks > > fine except that this sage seems to be broken. Maxima simply does not > > start (just try x+1). I'm quite concerned that debian is a quite wide > > spread distro, and that for all these guys the image of sage is > > something huge that simply doesn't work. I was very angry when I > > heard this very argument from a colleague and two students. If > > confirmed, couldn't we make an official request to debian that this > > package is removed from their repositories. This non working sage is > > a very bad publicity... > > +10
If you think this is of any use and if I have an official mandate from the sage community, I'm willing to ping again the maintainer to push those things forward. This is very irritating and deserve sage a lot. Cheers, Florent -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
