Re: [debian-sage] Re: [sage-devel] Re: please schedule a rebuild for sagemath on alpha architecture

2010-08-07 Thread Tim Abbott
30 minutes was just the time to build the ~10 spkgs that weren't being dealt with as packages -- this was with using system packages for all the dependencies (I imagine your number is for building the whole thing?) -Tim Abbott > > -- William > > > direct from

[sage-devel] Re: Bug#573538: Packaging again sagemath

2010-08-05 Thread Tim Abbott
hat just bundles all the dependencies (it's much easier to do, but would not be suitable for inclusion in Debian). Best regards, -Tim Abbott On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > retitle 573538 RM: sagemath -- RoQA; broken and outdated; RC-buggy > reassign 573538 ftp

[sage-devel] Re: Bug#573538: sagemath: moving to team maintainance?

2010-05-09 Thread Tim Abbott
ain as needed. Is anyone interested in organizing the effort? -Tim Abbott p.s. when replying to this thread, please try to not drop all the other lists from the thread. On Sat, 8 May 2010, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi, Tim. > > I see that you don't seem to have the time to package

Re: [debian-sage] Re: [sage-devel] Re: Debian package...

2010-03-13 Thread Tim Abbott
he calculus functionality, though). I don't like the current situation any more than you do, but the Ubuntu archive maintainers' policy isn't unreasonable, even if it is frustrating. [1] Where do I get the number thousands? The Ubuntu popularity contest shows 1300 installations of sagemat

Re: [debian-sage] Re: [sage-devel] Re: Debian package...

2010-03-13 Thread Tim Abbott
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Tim Abbott wrote: > As I mentioned on the bug report opened today at > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573538>, I'm talking to > a member of the Ubuntu stable release update team who I know to see what > the procedure would be

Re: [debian-sage] Re: [sage-devel] Re: Debian package...

2010-03-12 Thread Tim Abbott
as that progresses. (Please note I am not directly subscribed to sage-devel, so you will need to directly CC me or debian-sage@ if you want me to see your replies in real time). -Tim Abbott -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from t

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-10-30 Thread Tim Abbott
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tim Abbott wrote: > > (Note that I'm not directly subscribed to this list and do not have > > the time to read it regularly, so you may want to CC me directly if > > you want to ensure I see yo

[sage-devel] Re: PPA for Sage in Ubuntu

2009-10-29 Thread Tim Abbott
me to read it regularly, so you may want to CC me directly if you want to ensure I see your replies. I continue to wish that sage- devel was managed like the LKML.) -Tim Abbott On Oct 25, 1:45 am, Robert Bradshaw wrote: > On Oct 24, 2009, at 6:08 PM, Dan Drake wrote: > > > > >

[sage-devel] jsmath and jquery spkgs

2009-10-29 Thread Tim Abbott
it was split out into its own spkg several releases ago. In fact, it seems that the extcode spkg still has _two_ copies of jsmath, in particular: extcode-4.1.2/jsmath and extcode-4.1.2/notebook/javascript/jsmath -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To p

[sage-devel] Sagemath 4.1 in Debian

2009-08-26 Thread Tim Abbott
be happy to do what I can to braindump how things work and mentor them. Otherwise, I think it is safe to assume that it will be at least a few months more before a major version update happens. -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, s

Re: [debian-sage] Re: [sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima? (fwd)

2009-08-21 Thread Tim Abbott
ial progress on updating to Sage 3.4.1 back in May, but have been extremely busy since then and do not expect to find the several days of time I'd need to finish that process anytime soon. -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send a

[sage-devel] Re: sage patches to ghmm

2009-05-14 Thread Tim Abbott
bout a month from now. Does that fit with your time > table? > > After that we ought to have 4.1 which should deal with the category > patches, etc. That schedule sounds reasonable to me. To be honest, I'm incredibly busy right now with my startup (Ksplice) and so I can't ma

[sage-devel] sage patches to ghmm

2009-05-06 Thread Tim Abbott
hat those are, however, because the .spkg in Sage 3.4.1 seems to have a bunch of patches that don't do anything (i.e. the file being copied in is replacing an identical file). Did someone accidentally overwrite the copies in the upstream directory, or did the patches all get

[sage-devel] Re: Is Maxima incompatible with Sage licensing

2009-04-27 Thread Tim Abbott
hould Maxima be considered "free". It is in Debian main. The following debian-legal thread about Maxima is relevant: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-le...@lists.debian.org/msg16552.html -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this gro

[sage-devel] Re: sage on ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread Tim Abbott
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, David Joyner wrote: > It's great having Sage available from apt-get. Many thanks to Tim > Abbott for doing such a great job. > As a minor suggestion, I wonder if it is possible to add Sage as a > menu item in the next version? I think that asking for broad

[sage-devel] Re: sage on ubuntu 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread Tim Abbott
upport tries to byte-compile everything needing it every time you install a package using it, and it is quite likely that some newly installed sage dependency uses python-support. -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to

[sage-devel] Re: boehm_gc in Sage

2009-04-25 Thread Tim Abbott
7 still does not build on Solaris or > the current Mandriva release without using an ancient compiler, i.e. > on Solaris/Sparc you need gcc 3.2.3 to get a somewhat working clisp. Okay, so it is indeed currently unused but that is expected to change soon. Good to know. Thanks,

[sage-devel] boehm_gc in Sage

2009-04-25 Thread Tim Abbott
Hello, I was wondering why boehm_gc is a standard Sage package. It seems that it isn't actually a dependency of anything in spkg/standard/deps; is that because it is only used by the sage library and a there's a missing dependency, or is something else going on? -

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan

2009-04-24 Thread Tim Abbott
dd ticket link for existing spkg > updates and open tickets for the issues that are not in trac yet. Great! I hope to do some investigation tomorrow as to what other work is needed in this space. -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, sen

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan

2009-04-24 Thread Tim Abbott
just dropping the issue since > I have plenty of other things to do. Right, I should expect to have a sampling bias problem where I only notice when the patches don't end up upstream promptly :) -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this gr

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan

2009-04-24 Thread Tim Abbott
very long time. We should upgrade to the latest release of > scipy now, though. If people have time to do these updates before the Sage 4.0 release, I would be grateful. -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-de

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan

2009-04-24 Thread Tim Abbott
. It sounds like you are planning to work to avoid these types of problems in the future, which is all that's important to me here. -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan

2009-04-23 Thread Tim Abbott
with programs like pari when necessary -- you just have two versions of the pari package that conflict with each other. Generally something to be avoided if possible. It sounds possible that Pari has internal disagreements about releasing that might justify this sort of thi

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan

2009-04-23 Thread Tim Abbott
mpletely unaware of the patch's existence. Maybe I've been unlucky in my sampling, but I get the sense that Sage development does not currently react to merging a new ABI-changing patch with "we should send this upstream ASAP". -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan

2009-04-23 Thread Tim Abbott
ifdef CYGWIN ... #endif or similar that can be safely assumed on inspection to be harmless on Linux. If Sage only is applying patches like this, it is easy to just use the upstream release Sage is patching. That's why I stated the goal of cleaning out all ABI-changing p

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan

2009-04-23 Thread Tim Abbott
st 4.0 though. Yeah, I'm mostly concerned about the long-term issues here. -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.c

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan

2009-04-23 Thread Tim Abbott
e and then installed them. I think it would be hard to avoid violating Debian policy with such a package, and even if it did not, I suspect the Debian community would frown on such an arrangement for a piece of software in the main (free software)

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 4.0 release plan

2009-04-23 Thread Tim Abbott
both of these things in the next 3 weeks if we start soon. -Tim Abbott On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, mabshoff wrote: > > Hello, > > while there should be a quick 3.4.2 to mop up patches from trac before > the big 4.0 jump today we had a planning session during the UW status >

[sage-devel] Re: GMP 4.3.0

2009-04-22 Thread Tim Abbott
>From the point of view of packaging Sage for distributions, having Sage able to use GMP rather than MPIR is a win, since it means packaging Sage would not require adding MPIR to the distribution (adding MPIR is one of the blockers for packaging a more recent Sage in Debian). -

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.5 in Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-04-20 Thread Tim Abbott
n upstream sources could then be packaged by the various distributions without an unreasonable amount of work getting Sage's changes merged upstream. > But most of all: what is wrong with building from source in any linux > distribution? Having to compile from source is too high a bar

[sage-devel] Sage 3.0.5 in Ubuntu Jaunty

2009-04-20 Thread Tim Abbott
either, so if you do, please let me know. If you run into any other problems running the package on jaunty, please report a bug using Ubuntu's bug tracker (http://bugs.launchpad.net). -Tim Abbott -- Maxima in Ubuntu Jaunty is somewhat crashy; I think the pr

[sage-devel] Re: [debian-sage] Build of sagemath_3.0.5dfsg-2ubuntu1 using prevu fails on Kubuntu Intrepid

2009-03-10 Thread Tim Abbott
I'm guessing your issue is too old m4ri. Try upgrading to libm4ri-dev from jaunty. -Tim Abbott On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: > > Dear Folks, > > I am on an AMD64 PC running Kubuntu Intrepid 8.04 and KDE4.2. The Linux > kernel is 2.6.2

[sage-devel] Re: Sage 3.0.5 now available in Debian sid

2009-02-08 Thread Tim Abbott
I mentioned that I'd send mail here again once the segfault problems are fixed. I believe that both of the crash-on-start problems with Sage 3.0.5 in Debian are fixed in version 3.0.5dfsg-2, which is available in Debian sid. -Tim Abbott On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Tim Abbott

[sage-devel] Sage 3.0.5 now available in Debian sid

2009-02-01 Thread Tim Abbott
f MPIR. Is it possible to use GMP instead? Or alternatively, is there a stable MPIR release yet? (2) Sage seems to contain an spkg for "pynac", which is apparently a python-integrated gynac, where Sage is the upstream source? Does it have anything to do with this pynac: <http://sou

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-11-12 Thread Tim Abbott
.spkg format. If someone wants to write bash completion rules for .spkg files, I'd be happy to include them in the Debian package for Sage. -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsu

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Tim Abbott
.spkg works, but whether tar -xf sage_scripts will complete the remainder of the filename. -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more o

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Tim Abbott
the problem by getting the bash, midnight commander, etc. upstreams to treat .spkg files as though they were .tar.bz2 archives. I do worry that some upstreams may just refuse to merge support for the .spkg extension, however. -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~--

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-28 Thread Tim Abbott
> somehow), I wonder if it is possible for someone sufficiently > skillful to write a script which crawls through the *.spkg files > and rewrites them in a new directory as files convenient for Tim Abbott to > use. Is this doable, and if so would it help? To be clear, the 3-line patch I

[sage-devel] Re: The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-27 Thread Tim Abbott
sue I probably should have mentioned in my original email. One solution to that would be to always include the appended p0 (or whatever) in the version number for Sage versions of packages. Another would be to use the extension .spkg.tar.bz2. -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~-

[sage-devel] The Sage .spkg extension

2008-10-27 Thread Tim Abbott
e transition without e.g. making everyone rebuild every package in their extant sage trees (which I suspect is the largest practical concern). -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe f

[sage-devel] Re: C/C++ Library Versioning in Sage

2008-09-28 Thread Tim Abbott
s, examples, extcode, etc., and could add pari to that list if necessary). But I try to avoid this whenever possible; ideally, these bugfixes should be sent to the upstream developer and fixed for all Debian users, rather than just in Debian's Sage package. -Tim Abbott --~--~--

[sage-devel] Re: C/C++ Library Versioning in Sage

2008-09-27 Thread Tim Abbott
easy for them to only change the soname when it is necessary (i.e. when an interface is removed). The soname bumps are a nuisance for me as well, since packages have to pass through the Debian NEW queue every time their soname changes -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~-

[sage-devel] Re: status of Sage for Debian?

2008-09-22 Thread Tim Abbott
olyBoRi are aware of that problem (they fixed a > similar issue for us with 0.3, but introduced another one in 0.5). Good to know. I think that I won't have to do anything for this, since I'm using the standard Sage build process for the sage library (modulo using a different library pa

[sage-devel] Re: status of Sage for Debian?

2008-09-21 Thread Tim Abbott
ago. The zodb issue is a real problem; one cannot access the Sage databases until it is fixed. -Tim Abbott On Sep 21, 9:19 am, Pablo De Napoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also there seems to be two blocker bugs... > > package zodb for python 2.25 > (http://bugs.debian.o

[sage-devel] Re: Sage mentioned in American Scientist

2008-08-25 Thread Tim Abbott
ll them). One should be able to install optional sage spkgs using sage -i (as root) from the Debian installation. -Tim Abbott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send emai

[sage-devel] Draft Sage description for Debian

2008-07-21 Thread Tim Abbott
#x27;). Any comments would be appreciated. (I've noticed that SAGE has been replaced with Sage on the website, and am following that change in the package description). -Tim Abbott Package: sagemath Priority: optional Section: math ... Description: Computer algebra system written in P