Re: SAGE packages for Debian (fwd)
Hello,
On Tue, 06 May 2008, Timothy G Abbott wrote:
> 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 as Mathematica, Matlab,
> Maple, and Magma (Debian bug #455292).
Thanks for your work on SAGE. We do need to make SAGE available more
widely.
> 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 certain libraries/programs to be "fixed" at certain
upstream versions (with/without additional patches) in order to
ensure compatible behaviour.
For example, SAGE wanted a particular version of "gpari" with some
patches. The actual version of "gpari" in Debian is different.
If this has changed, then please correct me. Otherwise, it raises a
host of issues which would cause the package(s) to be incompatible with
Debian.
This aspect of SAGE seemed to make it more appropriate for a Custom
Debian Distribution rather than a package. It may be easier to start
this way in any case given the complexity. Over time, after
co-ordinating with the developers of SAGE dependencies within Debian
it should be possible to fold all the packages back into Debian. (Ref:
demudi and texlive)
Regards,
Kapil.
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