Re: SAGE packages for Debian

2008-05-14 Thread Timothy G Abbott
Yes, I realize there is not much time left. I'm also quite busy for the next week or two, after which point I should have time to work on this again. The precise release timeline is very helpful. I won't be able to reasonably maintain this much software in Debian in the long term, but I

Re: SAGE packages for Debian (fwd)

2008-05-07 Thread Timothy G Abbott
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso wrote: On 06/05/2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, SAGE wanted a particular version of gpari with some patches. The actual version of gpari in Debian is different. It's a bit worse than that. I asked William Stein

SAGE packages for Debian (fwd)

2008-05-06 Thread Timothy G Abbott
(reposted from debian-devel, since debian-science is more precisely my target audience for this message) I've been working on packaging for Debian SAGE (http://sagemath.org), a large free mathematics software conglomeration that is competing with proprietary mathematical software systems such

Re: SAGE packages for Debian (fwd)

2008-05-06 Thread Timothy G Abbott
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: The primary problem that makes my packages potentially unsuitable for uploading to Debian now is many of them may violate Debian library policy: Last time I looked at the problem of packaging SAGE, there was one other issue. SAGE required