Maintainers for Sage related packages needed
Hi debian-science,
the efforts of packaging Sage [1,2] are still making good progress. We
organized a GSoC project inside Sage where Felix Salfelder is adding
support for building Sage against system libraries right now. (It was
only intended to be built against bundled libraries before.) His work in
progress is available at [3]. In order to make the most of the project,
it would be good if the Sage dependencies would get into an even better
shape in Debian, preferably before GSoC is over.
There are still some Sage dependencies which lack a Debian maintainer,
namely linbox, singular, flint, flintqs, pexpect 2.0, mpir and gf2x.
Most of them are already packaged in the debian-science git (links are
on the Wiki page [2]), but nobody has stepped up to maintain them yet.
Cedric, Julien and myself each maintain some Sage dependencies already
and I think it would be good to spread the work over some more people to
assure a sustainable maintenance in the long term. Is there anybody who
wants to take care of one of these packages?
[1] http://people.debian.org/~thansen/debian-sage-status.html
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Sage
[3] https://github.com/felix-salfelder/sage/tree/WIP
Cheers,
Tobias
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