Re: [sage-devel] proposal: downgrade libtheora to experimental package

2017-09-19 Thread William Stein
Hi, +1 from me for removing Sage packages that don’t have good maintenance. I’m perhaps viewed as ultimately responsible in some way for these (at least the infrastructure where they sit), and definitely be happier if we don’t distribute anything that we don’t really, really have to. And for Pyt

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: downgrade libtheora to experimental package

2017-09-19 Thread Dima Pasechnik
In fact, libogg and libtheora are sort of frozen; this https://git.xiph.org/?p=theora.git looks quite low-activity, too. On Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 4:54:20 PM UTC+1, Thierry (sage-googlesucks@xxx) wrote: > > Hi, > > if we are sure that libtheora is of no use, why not just removing it ? Th

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: downgrade libtheora to experimental package

2017-09-19 Thread Thierry
Hi, if we are sure that libtheora is of no use, why not just removing it ? The goal of Sage, even Sage-the-distribution, is not to distribute as much as possible (note that there are currently 265 packages). Same question for libogg. See also the thread about "useless" packages with 'pip' type,

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: downgrade libtheora to experimental package

2017-09-19 Thread Dima Pasechnik
fails on semi-current gentoo: [libtheora-1.1.1] libtool: link: gcc -Wall -Wno-parentheses -O3 -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -funroll-loops -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/home/dima/Sage/sage-dev/local/lib -o .libs/png2theora png2theora-png2theora.o -L/home/dima/Sage/sage-dev/local/lib

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: downgrade libtheora to experimental package

2017-09-19 Thread Maarten Derickx
On Tuesday, 19 September 2017 15:07:23 UTC+2, vdelecroix wrote: > > On 19/09/2017 14:22, Maarten Derickx wrote: > > > Currently the optional package libtheora fails to install: see > > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/23732 for details. > > Actually, I also had troubles on Ubuntu 64 bits (base

Re: [sage-devel] proposal: downgrade libtheora to experimental package

2017-09-19 Thread Vincent Delecroix
On 19/09/2017 14:22, Maarten Derickx wrote: Hi Fellow sage devs cc Wilfied Huss, Currently the optional package libtheora fails to install: see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/23732 for details. Actually, I also had troubles on Ubuntu 64 bits (based on debian). I have looked a bit into this

[sage-devel] proposal: downgrade libtheora to experimental package

2017-09-19 Thread Maarten Derickx
Hi Fellow sage devs cc Wilfied Huss, Currently the optional package libtheora fails to install: see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/23732 for details. I have looked a bit into this, and I could not find a place where this package actually enhances the sage library so this would just be a package