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

[Doug Torrance]

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 4:15 AM Dima Pasechnik <dimpase at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the link!  It looks out of date with respect to upstream,
> > though.  The csdp package in Debian works quite well with Macaulay2 in
> > its current state.  Is there anything in particular that would be
> > useful to have for Sage in Debian that isn't available right now with
> > the csdp package?
>
> Looking at your package, it seems you are installing things in
> /usr/local, which is
> out of line with the usual Debian policy.

That's the upstream default, but the Debian package is patched to
install everything into /usr.

> That's a bit offtopic, but does M2's csdp package work on macOS?
> (Sage's csdp does)

I believe it does, as a large proportion of M2's users are Mac users.

> Anyhow, bringing the few upstream changes into https://github.com/dimpase/csdp
> should be easy, I just don't have time for it.
> I tried to convince upstream to use the Sage's autotoolization, but
> didn't get any response.
> See https://github.com/coin-or/Csdp/issues/6