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

[Tobias Hansen]

Hi Doug,

I reviewed mpsolve, csdp, frobby and mathicgb and the packaging/changes look really good!

Here are my comments:

Don't you want to add yourself to copyright for debian/* in mpsolve and csdp?

There seems to be a problem with the mpsolve. When I tried the example from the man page:

mpsolve -p "x^4-6x^9+6/7x + 5"
! MPSolve encountered an error: syntax error

Entering a polynomial in xmpsolve results in the message "The parser reported the following error: There is a syntax error in the specified the polynomial"

Frobby closes #921300 which was already closed by texlive-extra.

For csdp the tarball in the pristine-tar branch has the wrong name Csdp-6.2.0.tgz.

Otherwise things look really good and I'm ready to upload these four packages when you give your go.

Best,
Tobias

On 5/25/20 7:19 PM, Doug Torrance 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
> [7] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/frobby
> [8] https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/mathicgb
>
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