[Debian-science-sagemath] RFS for several Sage-related packages

[Dima Pasechnik]

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 7:08 PM Doug Torrance <dtorrance at piedmont.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm excited to report that due to some recent changes upstream (in
> particular, the ability to build against the Debian gmp package
> instead of relying on their own patched version of mpir), the next
> release of Macaulay2 should be able to packaged for Debian.
>
> I have a working draft of a Macaulay2 package based on their
> development branch [1].  However, there are two dependencies that
> should appear in Debian first:
>
> * topcom [2,3] (also an optional dependency of Sage)
> * mpsolve [4,5]
>
> In addition, I've prepared new versions of the following packages:
>
> * coinor-csdp [6] (previously orphaned)
> * frobby [7] (fixes an FTBFS due to a doxygen bug)
> * mathicgb [8] (fixes failing autopkgtest that was blocking migration
> to testing)
>
> I've requested sponsorship on the Sponsoring of Blends page, but
> haven't gotten a response yet after a few weeks, so I figured I'd ask
> on this list.  Would anyone be able to take a look at any of these 5
> packages?
>
> Thanks!
> Doug
>
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/macaulay2 (not ready for upload yet!)
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/959826
> [3] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/topcom
> [4] https://bugs.debian.org/958919
> [5] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/mpsolve
> [6] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/csdp

We have an autotoolized port of csdp in Sage:
https://github.com/dimpase/csdp

This might be more useful for your goals, too.

Just in case,
Dima

> [7] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/frobby
> [8] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/mathicgb
>
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