Re: [Debian-science-sagemath] Sagemath Build-Depends backported - unfortunately build error (Was: Help needed to backport ipywidgets ... (Was: Backporting sagemath))
Hi Ximin,
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 02:35:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote:
> >
> > Despite I'm not sure whether I fully understand this table I'll grab my
> > hat as Debian Med maintainer and backport biopython.
> >
>
> I think this is not necessary, we're only doing the "standard" packages (see the grey headers in the table). The other sections ("pip", "optional", etc) are there just for information purposes, but you don't need to do that when backporting Sage in Debian, and we're not testing those.
Well, biopython was cheap and having a Jessie backport does not harm at
all.
> (If this team doubles in size maybe we'll think about supporting the optional packages eventually.)
If I would be really involved into Sage I would add support at request.
So if somebody might request things like biopython I would do so but
I agree with you that otherwise manpower would be just burned.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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