Ximin Luo: > Julien Puydt: >> Hi, >> >> Le 06/03/2017 à 13:19, Andreas Tille a écrit : >> >>> I just like to announce that I started backporting several scientific >>> packages and Python dependencies with the goal to backport sagemath. >>> This is on one hand a warning for the brave backporters team and on the >>> other hand a request to join this for other Debian Science members in >>> case you find some spare cycles. I did not yet dived into the whole >>> dependency tree for backporting but I expect that there are about 50 >>> missing dependencies (which are not in Jessie or not in the needed >>> version). >> >> Ah, that might be why I saw some of "my" packages get uploads. I'm all >> for it : that's the kind of situation I put them under team maintenance >> in the first place. >> >> Good work, thanks! >> >> [..] > > Hey, thank you for taking the initiative on this. > > However I would suggest that it is probably not worth the effort to do this, > especially for the *current* version. Debian stretch would probably be > released as stable in about 3 months, and it may take you about that long to > port all the current dependencies to jessie. > > I'd suggest it may be more beneficial overall, to spend your free time > helping with the current effort to update the stretch version to 7.5.1. >
whoops, I meant "update the experimental version to 7.5.1" above. Of course currently stretch is in freeze and SageMath is at 7.4 there. Sorry for the confusion. > [..] -- GPG: ed25519/56034877E1F87C35 GPG: rsa4096/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE https://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git
