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

[Tobias Hansen]

On 11/12/2016 08:01 PM, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Tobias Hansen:
>> considering to prepare a real maxima-sage (5.35.1) package on the
>> weekend. Since we need a different version than the debian package now,
>> we wouldn't even really duplicate the source anymore. Having two
>> versions of a software in Debian sometimes happens when it can't be
>> avoided. And that package could be stripped down. Coinstallable with
>> maxima, only ecl, less binary packages. What do you think?
>>
> 
> I've pinged Camm again on that ticket, I suggest we wait for a response first. I don't think he is aware of the full situation, so we should *at least* tell him that we're planning this separate package, before uploading it.
> 
> You could work on it in the meantime though, to see if it's a "clean solution". For starters, the version seems to be hard-coded in /usr/bin/maxima. How are you planning to work around this? (Also the man pages)
> 
> On the up side, I don't see other issues at this point - all the other relevant files are like, /usr/{lib,share}/maxima/$version/, so that is already co-installable without extra work.


I created the coinstallable maxima-sage package today. It doesn't cause
any new test fails. I uploaded it to deb-sci-sage and updated sagemath
to use it. I'll write to the maxima bug report tomorrow.

I realized that when we file the ITP for SageMath, it will go to
debian-devel so it is a good opportunity to ask for help on fixing RC
bugs and packaging javascript stuff. So we should do that soon too.
Anything specific we should ask for help on?

Best,
Tobias