Some people within DebianScience would like to package again Sage for Debian. An old version of Sage got packaged long time ago by Tim Abbott, but, because of lack of maintainance, it became totally unusable and was removed from Debian. The status page gives an overview about package versions in Sage and Debian.

Steps to get an up-to-date Sage standard suite in Debian

Missing packages (grey spots on the status page)

Package

Bug / Link

Assigned

Comments

Unpackaged dependencies:

flintqs

sage upstream would like to get rid of flintqs since some recent versions of flint ship with a quadratic sieve (see this ticket, but it hasn't been done yet). This mail of William Hart tells more about the state of the quadratic sieve code in both flint and flint2.

gf2x

GF2X homepage

libgap

lrcalc

703736

Tobias

mpir

708391

mpir was at some point ABI-compatible with gmp, but flint 2 requires mpir now. A lot of math packages use gmp and we don't know yet if we can get away with not building a mpir version of everything. Update: Apparently the newest flint version works with gmp again.

pexpect 2.0

(Debian pkg: python-pexpect): Debian ships version 2.4, but Sage requires version 2.0 (though one of the necessary patches is already in 2.4). Plotting in the notebook is likely to break with newer versions that are in Debian; and >2.0 is reported to be slow. see this sage bug

singular

singular 3.1.6 is packaged in debian-science's git but sage still relies on 3.1.5 -- and of course they're not compatible... see this sage bug

Unpackaged Sage components:

extcode

perhaps not needed: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topic/sage-devel/DfUqdFG90bo

rubiks

a toy spkg -- low priority

sage

sage_root

sage_scripts

sagenb

the dependencies should be in Debian now (691509, 703541, 703531, 703533, 703534, 703535 and 703536)

sagetex

Unneeded dependencies:

cephes

The Cephes Mathematical Library is only needed for systems where the libc doesn't provide appropriate mathematical functions (cygwin and FreeBSD) and so is not required for Debian.

iconv

is part of the libc

termcap

Packages currently in NEW:

lcalc

702901

Tobias

The Debian package does not ship the shared library yet.

ratpoints

700184

Tobias

Sponsorship requests:

-

Outdated packages (red spots on the status page)

Many of the packages that are already in Debian were created by Tim Abbott. He is fine with us taking over maintainership of these packages (see mail quoted here).

Package

Bug / Link

Assigned

Comments

Dependencies that need to be updated and a new maintainer:

flint

592349

gap-guava

Does not appear on the status page, because it is part of the gap package in Sage.

Dependencies that need to be updated:

linbox

Lifeng

The current debian package is an rc, which doesn't have everything needed for sage (?NonZeroRandIter in class ?LinBox::Modular<float>).

Well maintained, but smaller version than in Sage:

gap

677668

jmol

Sponsorship requests:

-

Other known or suspected issues

Old sagemath package

The old, buggy sagemath Debian package source code is available via git: git://git.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/sagemath.git and at http://snapshot.debian.org/package/sagemath/3.0.5dfsg-5.1/

Google Summer of Code project

There is a proposal for a Google Summer of Code project with the aim of preparing Sage for being packaged in Linux distributions. If you are a student and want to get paid to work on this in the summer, apply!