Hi Florent,
I was planning to discuss this with upstream during the weekend when I
have some time to think about Sage, but I should give some quick thoughts
here.
Is the issue upstream is having actually that people are installing the
sagemath package on Debian unstable systems and being confused?
My guess is that your actual problem is that the sagemath package made it
into Ubuntu Karmic (despite it having release-critical bugs designed to
prevent it from making it into any Debian release) and lots of people are
having a bad experience there. I'd be happy to help with trying to get it
removed from Ubuntu Karmic -- I ask what's involved in doing that.
-Tim Abbott
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Florent Hivert wrote:
> Package: sagemath
> Version: 3.0.5dfsg-5.1
> Severity: Grave
>
> Hi, the sagemath deb package is very outdated and we get reports on a regular
> base that it is not working. We do not have the manpower to release a new
> package, but it is very easy to install a prebuilt binary. Still, many install
> it via the repository and think that it is crap. We do not know who removes
> packages from the Debian repository, but it would be very good if it would
> happen. Here is one of our recent discussions about that:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/29ee9e1d4efdeda2/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Florent Hivert
>
>
>
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