On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Kasper Peeters wrote:
Has anyone considered emailing the official maintainer
Tim Abbott <tabb...@mit.edu>
and ask him whether he would be interested in handing over
maintainership to someone with more time to bring the debian package
up to date?
I would be happy to help out with this (including contacting Abbott),
but it will clearly require quite a bit of work because neither Debian
nor Ubuntu like packages which duplicate software already in the
repositories.
Removing sage from Debian/Ubuntu is probably not a good idea, since
those repositories are what those users expect to get their software
from. Usage of my cadabra CAS went up dramatically once it got into
the Ubuntu repositories, even though I had binaries available for
download before that. So it would help a lot to have an up-to-date
sage in those repositories too.
Clearly we want up-to-date packages in the repositories, but the
current situation of a really old, broken Sage is much worse than not
being there at all.
- Robert
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