2010/3/14 Kasper Peeters <kasper.peet...@googlemail.com>: >> That review process is what killed the Debian sagemath package >> -- Upgrading during the review process >> sends you to the back of the queue, and by a year after my original >> submission, I had left MIT graduate school to start a startup, and I no >> longer had the time to upgrade past a year of Sage development). > > Tim, I take it that you no longer have time to make an upgrade of the > sagemath package? Would you be willing to give us/me a brief run- > through > of the main obstacles you expect? I am able to put some time into > making a debian package (and have experience doing that), but it would > be good if I could avoid duplicating the work that you have already > put > into it.
I don't have much experience with Debian build system, other then building or "hacking" some packages for OEM projects locally. And have zero experience with the procedure for approval of a package, etc. I see there was some work at http://wiki.sagemath.org/debian/sage-4.0.x-in-experimental The package in Mandriva is not officially supported, that is, it is not in the "main" repository, it is in "contrib". But I would really like to see it packaged for Debian and Ubuntu as a "system" package. This way, since Sage releases often, it would have a wider user base to check for problems and besides possibly problematic at first if Sage lags behind on the version of some component, at the end it should be better for everyone packaging Sage. One example, the wiki interface in the Mandriva package had been broken for quite some time, and only yesterday I noticed, and also corrected it.... So far, I basically only do a "sage -testall" to check for packaging problems, and run some of the tutorials. Just to attempt to make it clear. I am not a Linux or Mandriva evangelist, if anything, I would be a FreeBSD evangelist as it was my first experience with OSS, but I no longer do flaming (and, while I was indiferent to license issues in the past, I would advocate GPL now :-) > Cheers, > Kasper Paulo -- 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
