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

2010/3/14 Kasper Peeters : >> 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

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

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Tim Abbott wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Alex Ghitza wrote: > >> > However, they did say that given the circumstances, it might be possible >> > to push through a major update to the package to Karmic when once one is >> > available. >> > >> > So I think this leave

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

> 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 S

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

Alex Ghitza wrote: Maybe we should just take whatever version of Sage is in Ubuntu right now and patch it so that running sage simply exits with something like ** THIS VERSION OF SAGE IS RIDICULOUSLY OUT-OF-DATE! Please downlo

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

On Mar 13, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Tim Abbott wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Alex Ghitza wrote: However, they did say that given the circumstances, it might be possible to push through a major update to the package to Karmic when once one is available. So I think this leaves us at "we need to upda

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

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Alex Ghitza wrote: > > However, they did say that given the circumstances, it might be possible > > to push through a major update to the package to Karmic when once one is > > available. > > > > So I think this leaves us at "we need to update the package". Sigh. > > Mayb

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

Hi Tim, Thanks for looking into this! On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:02:18 -0500 (EST), Tim Abbott wrote: > The answer I got on this is that there is no procedure for removing a > package from a stable release -- Ubuntu doesn't do that kind of thing. That's pretty hilarious. > However, they did say

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

I suggested somewhere that such a package should just download a binary installation of sage. Even Debian has packages of this type. Dmitrii On Mar 14, 9:02 am, Tim Abbott wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Tim Abbott wrote: > > As I mentioned on the bug report opened today at > >

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

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Tim Abbott wrote: > As I mentioned on the bug report opened today at > , I'm talking to > a member of the Ubuntu stable release update team who I know to see what > the procedure would be for getting the package remov

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

On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, William Stein wrote: > > We might make a PPA for Ubuntu.  If someone is interested in an easy way to > > install Sage via dpkg, that might be the best option at this point. > > > > I agree that removing sage 3.0.5 (or whatever version it is) from Debian is > > probably best, si

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

On Mar 6, 2010, at 3:51 PM, memilanuk wrote: Hello, Another vote here for getting an old and/or broken version *out* of Debian unstable/experimental. Seems kind of ridiculous to have a version that old in what is commonly viewed as the 'cutting edge' branch. Just tossing out ideas here... if

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

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:51 PM, memilanuk wrote: > Hello, > > Another vote here for getting an old and/or broken version *out* of > Debian unstable/experimental.  Seems kind of ridiculous to have a > version that old in what is commonly viewed as the 'cutting edge' > branch. > > Just tossing out i

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

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > I'm very much inexperienced with respect to Debian porting. > All I'm saying is that the task ahead seems to me too surmountable, That should be "too insurmountable". Sorry for the typo. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen -- To post to this group,

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

Kasper Peeters wrote: Has anyone considered emailing the official maintainer Tim Abbott and ask him whether he would be interested in handing over maintainership to someone with more time to bring the debian package up to date? I would be happy to help out with this (including contacting Ab

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

> In the past, Tim Abbott asked to be cc'ed on threads like these. I > think his primary difficulty is keeping up with all the dependencies > of sage, especially when sage releases with a patched version of a > dependency that has not made it upstream yet. Debian package > maintainers are unlikely

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

Hi Kasper, On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Kasper Peeters wrote: > I would be happy to help out with this (including contacting Abbott), > but it will clearly require quite a bit of work because neither Debian > nor Ubuntu like packages which duplicate software already in the > repositories.

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

On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Kasper Peeters wrote: Has anyone considered emailing the official maintainer Tim Abbott and ask him whether he would be interested in handing over maintainership to someone with more time to bring the debian package up to date? I would be happy to help out with

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

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 03/04/2010 11:14 AM, Burcin Erocal wrote: >> >> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:03:47 +0100 >> Florent Hivert  wrote: >> >>>       Hi there, >>> >>> Disclaimer: I'm not a debian user and my intend is not to launch a >>> flame nor to disregard the hard