Bug#573538: Packaging again sagemath

2010-08-05 Thread Tim Abbott
Hello all, I'm the maintainer of the sagemath package. Due to the package taking 8 months to get through NEW (resulting in it starting out 8 months out of date) and my founding a startup around the time it entered NEW, I've never had the time to update it across the original 8 months of backlo

Bug#573538: Packaging again sagemath

2010-08-05 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
retitle 573538 RM: sagemath -- RoQA; broken and outdated; RC-buggy reassign 573538 ftp.debian.org severity 573538 normal thanks Hi, I'm requesting the removal of the sagemath package. It is completely outdated in Debian, which makes everybody unhappy (upstream developers, users). It would still

Bug#573538: Packaging again sagemath

2010-08-02 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. 2010/8/2 David Bremner : > With some trepidation I reply to such a long list of addresses... I am acting here with some inpunity, but for a good cause. :) > There will be a Debian math software BoF (discussion session) on > Thursday August 5 at columbia. Packaging sage would be on topi

Bug#573538: Packaging again sagemath

2010-08-01 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. Sorry for not replying earlier, but things got very hectic with trips and so on. On 07/03/2010 06:48 PM, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > Tim, if you can explain a bit how you used to maintain sagemath, I could > get that as a starting point for the new package. (...) Just for the record,

Bug#573538: Packaging again sagemath

2010-07-19 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Hi. Rogério, you can drop me from recipients list, I'm already subscribed to the bug and to debian-science. Il 19/07/2010 18:26, Rogério Brito ha scritto: >> Anyway, maybe these issues can be solved, if we talk with upstream and, >> above all, we can find a few people to comaintain the package. >

Bug#573538: Packaging again sagemath

2010-07-19 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Giovanni. On Jul 19 2010, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately in the meantime upstream's > reaction wasn't really the one I'd liked more[1]. Thank you very much for your reply. > http://groups.google.com.au/group/debian-sage/browse_thread/thread/20e092f1b11e6

Bug#573538: Packaging again sagemath

2010-07-19 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Hi. Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately in the meantime upstream's reaction wasn't really the one I'd liked more[1]. [1] http://groups.google.com.au/group/debian-sage/browse_thread/thread/20e092f1b11e6f02 Anyway, maybe these issues can be solved, if we talk with upstream and, above all, we

Bug#573538: Packaging again sagemath

2010-07-19 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there, Giovanni and others. On 07/03/2010 07:48 PM, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > I'm interested in having sagemath in Debian. I am too. This past week I needed to perform some quite messy computations and the lack of something to make them automatic was frustrating. > I'm not a sagemath power

Bug#573538: Packaging again sagemath

2010-07-03 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Hi to the many recipients of this email. I'm interested in having sagemath in Debian. I'm not a sagemath power user and maybe should learn a bit of the many technologies used to build it in order to maintain it, but I have no problems in learning what I need (even if this can take time). Tim, if