#7438: the graphviz-2.16.1.p0 optional spkg fails to build on several operating
systems.
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Reporter: was | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-5.9
Component: packages: optional | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: N/A | Reviewers:
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Comment (by ncohen):
> If you want to open a sage-devel discussion about how non-broken
experimental packages should be, that's fine.
I don't want to "start debates", again and again, and I don't want to
debate generally about experimental spkg. We waste our lifetime discussing
uselessly. Here's where the discussion is happening. I just talk about
this very spkg, nothing else.
> In my view - and as you know, I am pretty conservative on such things -
experimental can be as broken as they want to be. Someone probably does
have the expertise to fix each of them, and removing them completely means
no one will even have the chance.
* Here are the two spkg maintainers : Robert Miller, Michael Abshoff. They
don't do much development here anymore, do they ?
* Last update of the spkg : 2008
* 3 tickets have been created since by people who tried to used it and
only found this bug
Conservative as you may be, would you accept to take these elements as
hints that this spkg is plainly *forgotten*, has no reason to be fixed
tomorrow, and just makes some developpers a few hours of their life each
year ?
We cannot advertise the spkg in the doc, as we cannot hope it to run on
their machines. Hence, in the *best case*, nobody knows the spkg exist (if
they do they will probably meet a bug).
We would be better without this in Sage's list of packages. We would be
better with a "package no found" message to answer "`sage -i graphviz`".
It would help users look the right way : this package should be installed
manually.
Nathann
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