[Debian-science-sagemath] pari-sage or pari ?

[Ximin Luo]

Jeroen Demeyer:
> On 2016-08-24 09:17, Ximin Luo wrote:
>> No, you're not even *trying to understand*.
> 
> Why are you taking such an offensive tone?
> 
> I completely understand Debian's point of view. I am just defending Sage and explaining why Sage cannot so easily comply with Debian's requests.
> 

I apologise, I was just getting frustrated that we were going around in circles.

The main difference between Debian's patches to (say, python) vs Sage's patches to python is that Debian's patches are specifically meant *not* to affect other packages that might use python. I don't believe Sage follows this principle nearly as closely - you don't expect other programs outside of Sage, to use Sage's copy of python (or pari, or whatever else), so your incentive to scrutinise your patches in this way, is reduced.

Also Debian tends very much to follow release versions, rather than having versions like pari-2.7-2771-gitblahblah. Most other FOSS software does this.

Anyway, I don't think we are doing anything productive discussing this further, so let's just leave it. We'll continue working on Sage in the Debian Way and ask you for help if we run into more technical issues. Thanks for taking an interest in our work!

X

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