[Debian-science-sagemath] Required tasks for sage in stretch

[Gordon Ball]

On 09/11/16 12:36, Tobias Hansen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a bit worried that we might not achieve the goal to get sage into
> stretch, if we don't focus on the essential tasks.[1] If we do not get
> all of the following things done in the next 3 or 4 weeks, there will
> simply be no sage in stretch.
> 
> * gap/libgap - Jerome, do you have a plan to resolve this?
> 
> * maxima - even updating sage to maxima 5.38.1 is hard (see [2]) and
> then there is the gcl vs ecl issue. I begin to think the only way to
> solve this in time is to have our own package of maxima 5.35.1 with ecl
> and fasl library.
> 
> * ecl - the one fix I applied does not migrate to testing due to a
> deadlocked situation with libatomic-ops (unfixable (?) RC bug). Maybe
> this can be resolved by asking for removals of libatomic-ops packages
> for the failing architectures from testing. Since the RC bug is also in
> testing, the package should then migrate, right?
> 
> * planarity - We need have to figure out how to use the new version
> packaged in Debian.
> 
> * cython - We need to fix RC bug #833288 for testing migration and make
> sure cython 0.25 gets packaged.
> 
> * pyzmq - RC bugs need to be fixed for testing migration.
> 
> * linbox - I might need to close RC bugs by disabling tests.
> 
> * sagenb - Is someone taking care of this? What's the status?
> 
> * jupyter-sphinx-theme - Jerome, can this be uploaded?
> 
> * jupyter-notebook - Gordon, can this be uploaded?

Yes, try it now.

(Changed: recorded as Built-Depends the packages which are included in
the main.min.js amalgamation, in addition to the patch to work with
jquery-ui 1.12).

> 
> * ipywidgets, widgetsnbextension, thebe - ? (Are these essential?)
> 
> * sagemath - fix doctests, disable doctests we can't fix, revise
> patches, polish packaging, etc.
> 
> 
> [1] I really hope noone gets offended by this, but singular 4.0.3-p5 and
> pynac 0.7 are not on this list. We should probably also stop worrying
> about jmol. It would be a pity if we can't get sage into stretch because
> we get carried away doing other things.
> 
> [2] https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18920
> 
> Best,
> Tobias
> 
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