here is the response from one of Debian folks
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> Date: 5 March 2010 18:49 Subject: Re: Fwd: Debian package... To: Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 08:28:53PM -0800, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > Dear Bill, > > do you know how to handle this? > We would like remove Sage from debian, as it is horribly > outdated there, and there is no work being done on fixing > the debian distribution. Hello Dima, Sage is not really in Debian, since the "sagemath" Debian package is only in the 'unstable' distibution an not in 'testing', 'squeeze' or 'stable', 'lenny': This is the list of sagemath in Debian: sagemath | 3.0.5dfsg-5.1 | unstable | source, amd64 sagemath | 3.0.5dfsg-5.1+b1 | unstable | hppa, i386, ia64, powerpc, s390, sparc There are 3 critical bugs reported on the package, so no further action is required, though you can report a bug with severity grave asking it to be removed because it is outdated. However I have some comment on William email below: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> > To: sage-devel > > >>> 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... If the users really used 'dpkg -i' to install the package, then much probably it was not the official Debian package, because such package are normally installed by high-level tools like 'apt-get', 'aptitude' or 'synaptics', that will take care of downloading and installing the numberous dependencies. 'dpkg -i' does not and is likely to fail. If they actually used 'dpkg -i' they probably downloadied some unofficial .deb file from some web site (maybe even sagemath.org) and used dpkg -i *.deb to install it. > >> See also: > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/t/1f055a381532b667#354256... This email mentions problem with Ubuntu. Removing the package from Ubuntu is a totally different issue from removing it from Debian. > > We might make a PPA for Ubuntu. If someone is interested in an easy way to > > install Sage via dpkg, that might be the best option at this point. > > > I agree that removing sage 3.0.5 (or whatever version it is) from Debian is > > probably best, since our first piece of advice to anyone is to uninstall it > > and install Sage from scratch. > > Yes, +1 to removing sage 3.0.5 from Debian. > > But how do we make that happen? Cheers, Bill -- Dmitrii Pasechnik ----- DISCLAIMER: Any text following this sentence does not constitute a part of this message, and was added automatically during transmission. -- 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
