Re: Mathicgb

[Doug Torrance <douglas.a.torrance@gmail.com>]

On 04/05/2015 01:34 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> thanks again for working on Macaulay2 dependencies.  As for the other
> package I repeat my offer that you can add a line to the SoB table at
>
>     https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends/SoB
>
> and I'll check the package.
Will do.  However, there is no entry on the web sentinel for Macaulay2.  
I believe I've patched the tasks file to fix this (attached), but I'm 
not a member of the Blends team so I don't have write permission to the 
git repository.  Would you or someone else be willing to do this for me?

Thanks!
Doug

>From 9906ea0ecbcf544cf147cd941e72aa43d8626346 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doug Torrance <dtorrance@monmouthcollege.edu>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 06:41:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add Macaulay2

---
 tasks/mathematics | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tasks/mathematics b/tasks/mathematics
index da20f83..2d9a10d 100644
--- a/tasks/mathematics
+++ b/tasks/mathematics
@@ -145,6 +145,15 @@ Suggests: matlab-support
 
 Depends: qhull-bin
 
+Depends: macaulay2
+Pkg-URL: http://www.math.illinois.edu/Macaulay2/Downloads/GNU-Linux/Debian
+Homepage: http://www.math.illinois.edu/Macaulay2/
+Pkg-Description: Software system for algebraic geometry research
+ Macaulay 2 is a software system for algebraic geometry research, written by
+ Daniel R. Grayson and Michael E. Stillman.  Based on Groebner bases, it
+ provides algorithms for computing homological invariants of rings and
+ modules.
+
 X-Removed: Packages removed from Debian
 
 Depends: octaviz
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