Re: Backporting sagemath
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.
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