[Debian-science-sagemath] SAGE_SHARE location

[Tobias Hansen]

On 12/19/2016 04:52 PM, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT:
>> On 19/12/16 16:33, Tobias Hansen wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>
>>> at the moment we have two folders under /usr/share with sage files,
>>> namely /usr/share/sagemath with all the data files from the
>>> sagemath-database-* packages and /usr/share/sage from sage itself.
>>
>>> Because of this we need the patch d0-paths-sharedata.patch.
>>> We can get rid of the patch if we put everything in the same folder and
>>> set $SAGE_SHARE accordingly, the question is which one is better?
>>
>>> Arch and Gentoo use /usr/share/sage while Fedora uses
>>> /usr/share/sagemath... I think it would be easier for us to use
>>> /usr/share/sagemath because then we just need to change the sagemath
>>> package and not all the database packages.
>>
>>> Thoughts? Otherwise I'd implement this change in the evening.
>>
>> I guess sagemath is better (in particular to avoid potential collision).
>>
> 
> My preference is slightly for sagemath.
> 
> However note that (if I remember right; have bad internet atm so can't check) upstream Sage assume that the sagemath-database-* packages store things underneath /usr/share/* and not /usr/share/sagemath/*, I mentioned this in the patch header and how we could potentially improve this situation.
> 

No, they assume stuff in $SAGE_SHARE/* which we set to /usr/share/sage/*
currently. The whole patch could just be removed by moving to
/usr/share/sagemath.

> Also the docs are installed in /usr/share/doc/sage, you might want to change that as well if you're making it all consistent.
> 

Yes, will do that too.

> I worry that it might take too much effort before our stable deadlines; perhaps you should experiment with this in a side branch for the time being?
> 

Yes, will do it in a side branch and run a test build. If everything
works out fine we can upload that on Wednesday or (if jmol is ready)
tomorrow evening.

Best,
Tobias