There is no deceit, libgap is the gap source made useable as a shared libary. Its not like git/libgit who don't share a line of code...
On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 8:23:20 AM UTC+1, Snark wrote: > > Hi, > > Le 20/02/2015 01:07, Volker Braun a écrit : > > On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 6:36:38 PM UTC+1, Snark wrote: > >> > >> Sage's libgap and cddlib are problems : they correspond to upstreams > > > > That is not correct, there is no upstream library interface to gap. So > > there is no conflict. However, Debian invented a gap-library package. > > The package is actually named gap-libs, and isn't a library package in > the computer science meaning of the word, so isn't the reason libgap > can't go in debian. > > Since there is a gap project (with a version number, say 3.14), debian > doesn't want to release a "libgap-3.14" (same name, same version number) > package not from upstream, as that would be deceiving the users. Rename > that libsagegap and it's not a problem anymore. > > Do not lie, do not deceive -- are those unreasonable demands? > > Snark on #sagemath > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
