#19781: Fix optional packages
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       Reporter:  jdemeyer                |        Owner:
           Type:  enhancement             |       Status:  new
       Priority:  blocker                 |    Milestone:  sage-7.0
      Component:  packages: experimental  |   Resolution:
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        Authors:  Jeroen Demeyer          |    Reviewers:
Report Upstream:  N/A                     |  Work issues:
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Comment (by jdemeyer):

 Replying to [comment:46 tscrim]:
 > So for `lie`, I know that you can reach an upstream contact. However, I
 don't think they are necessarily active, nor do I think they would care
 about improving the build process.

 I think we can look at the `planarity` package for what will hopefully
 happen. That package had the same problem as `lie` (but maybe slightly
 less bad). In that case, upstream didn't know about autotools but they
 accepted the autotoolization done by Nathann Cohen and now their "official
 release" is made with autotools.

 So the first thing to do is to ask upstream what they think about this.

 > So do you think we should rework the build process or fork the project
 and split it into 2, one for the library and one for the interface (this
 is the part that needs `bison` as I understand it)?

 I see no reason to split it up. Are you even sure that there is a
 "library"? At least I know that Sage does not use any library.

 > Do you also think we should autotoolize the build as well?

 Obviously, see above.

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