On Tue, 17 Dec 2019, 18:38 Michael Orlitzky, <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote:
> SageMath uses a few packages that appear to have been abandoned > upstream. The most recent example I have in mind is Symmetrica: > > http://www.algorithm.uni-bayreuth.de/en/research/SYMMETRICA/ > > The package's website (symmetrica.de) and contact address are both dead. > The upstream contact (Axel Kohnert) listed in SPKG.txt also has a dead > email address on the Bayreuth site. > Axel is no longer with us. Here is a death notice from 2013. https://images.app.goo.gl/iLwwbzF1YyB7qLev9 > Since the last release was over a decade ago, it contains a lot of old > bugs, and we've been patching it ourselves over the years. So has > everyone that ships it: Gentoo[0], Arch[1], Debian[2], Conda[3], > Fedora[4], etc. > > At some point, it becomes a waste of time to duplicate this effort. And > presumably, SageMath is the only modern consumer of the library. What do > people think about adopting these sorts of packages under the SageMath > umbrella (on Github?) where we can maintain them properly and make new > releases? > > My end-game here is that I would like to add Symmetrica to Gentoo, since > Dima was kind enough to add support for a system copy in Trac #28208. > But I don't want to be in the business of adding dead software to the > main repository, or of patching a tarball from 2008 myself for eternity. > > > > [0] > > https://github.com/cschwan/sage-on-gentoo/tree/master/sci-libs/symmetrica/files > > [1] > > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/symmetrica > > [2] > https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/symmetrica/tree/master/debian/patches > > [3] https://anaconda.org/isuruf/symmetrica/files > > [4] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/symmetrica/tree/master > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/940a6988-5f6e-34c9-d63e-7b28ce0bd6dc%40orlitzky.com > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAAWYfq3bvM3G7ZKmof0AQ%3DGA%2BGX7LR1d9E2knHzgZd5LPdQ2JA%40mail.gmail.com.
