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[Pere Urbón Bayes]

Hello to every body, I was trying to package sage for debian but first I
must ask if any one into the community is doing it?

Regards,

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[Frederic Lehobey]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:22:55PM +0200, Pere Urbón Bayes wrote:

> Hello to every body, I was trying to package sage for debian but first I
> must ask if any one into the community is doing it?

Look at the thread starting from this message:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2006/10/msg00024.html

Best regards,
Frédéric Lehobey

[David Joyner]

Also, you should probably email Bobby Moretti (mor...@u.washington.edu)
for advice about this since he has put some thought and work into this.

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[Frederic Lehobey]

Hi,

For your information, several people have expressed interest in
packaging sage in Debian (see the link above). Nothing is structured
yet, but now, you know. :-)

Another thread on sage-devel:
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/c3d06d9fed57588f/4f53858133b6708d#4f53858133b6708d

Best regards,
Frédéric Lehobey

[William Stein]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:22:55 -0700, Pere Urbón Bayes <pur...@deic.uab.cat>
wrote:

>
> Hello to every body, I was trying to package sage for debian but first I
> must ask if any one into the community is doing it?

Yes, this been a topic of discussion recently. Here's an email from
somebody
else whose doing this:

------- Forwarded message -------
From: "Frederic Lehobey" <Frederic...@free.fr>
To: "James McCaw" <jam...@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
Cc: "David Joyner" <wdjo...@gmail.com>, debian-...@lists.debian.org,
"William Stein" <wst...@gmail.com>, "Martin Albrecht"
<ma...@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
Subject: Re: math package maintainer for Debian
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:24:26 -0700

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 02:16:51PM +1000, James McCaw wrote:

> Firstly, I am not a Debian developer but have been using debian for some
> 10 years and have a very rudimentary knowledge of debian package
> creation. I am very interested in seeing a SAGE package for debian and
> recently made some effort to "debianize" the upstream source.

> Anyway, I successfully built (and used for quite some time) a debianized
> SAGE 1.3.2.1. I recently attempted to build 1.3.7.2 but ran into some
> compile errors associated with libpari.

This is great achievement.

> As I said, I'd be most happy to share my (rather patchy) knowledge with
> anyone interested.

What are your goals? Would you like to be the maintainer of the Debian
sage package? You do not need to be a Debian developer (I am sure you
already know that), just to find a sponsor and I hope the
debian-science mailing list is the best place for that.

An other option would be to fire up a sage-pkg project on alioth for
collaborative maintenance of sage. I would be happy to join you there
even if my python skills are still rudimentary (and neither am I a
Debian developer).

Best regards,
Frédéric Lehobey