On Sat 29 May 2021 06:44:24 AM EDT, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > On 29/05/2021 01:06, Torrance, Douglas wrote: >> On Fri 28 May 2021 05:46:31 AM EDT, erentar2002 wrote: >>> Sagemath 9.3 got released. >> >> While we're on the subject of packaging Sage 9.3, the new version now >> includes Singular 4.2.0 [1]. Macaulay2 also just bumped the minimum >> required version of Singular (well, factory, which is shipped with Singular) >> to 4.2.0 [2]. >> >> I'd be interested in getting Singular 4.2.0 in experimental soon. I've >> played around a little bit with packaging it already [3] and soon should >> have a working draft that we'll start using for Macaulay2's GitHub workflows >> [4]. > > I am the current maintainer of the singular package. > I have now time before me. Please let me some time to work > on getting Singular 4.2.0
Absolutely! I didn't want to step on your toes, so I only pushed my work to my Salsa fork. Feel free to use or ignore any of what I did. >> One thing I'd like to do is split factory off into its own set of binary >> packages for use when building Macaulay2 [5]. Would there be any objections >> to that? Would you be okay with doing this? This isn't unprecedented, e.g. Fedora splits factory, factory-devel, and factory-gftables into separate rpms [6]. >> [1] https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25993 >> [2] https://github.com/Macaulay2/M2/commit/2945906 >> [3] https://salsa.debian.org/dtorrance/singular >> [4] https://github.com/Macaulay2/M2/pull/2115 >> [5] https://github.com/Macaulay2/M2/issues/1681 [6] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/Singular/blob/rawhide/f/Singular.spec
