Re: [sage-devel] Re: What's the view on updating Maxima?

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William Stein

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Aug 20, 2009, 2:50:16 PM8/20/09

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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:43 AM, gsw<georg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> Hi David,
>
> concerning your original question:
> In Debian sid (==unstable currently), there are Maxima version 5.17.1,
> and ECL version 9.6.1.
> These versions are more recent than what currently comes with Sage.
> But if we grade up to Maxima version 5.19.0 and ECL version 9.8.3,
> these versions were more recent than the ones that come with Debian
> sid. I don't know if anybody is working to update Sage in Debian
> (currently Sage version 3.0.6 is there ...), so this might be a non-
> issue.
>

My understanding is that nobody is working to update Sage in Debian.
(I wish I were wrong about that fact!)