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:

pynac

678332

Julien

ratpoints

Tobias

libm4rie

Cédric

lrcalc

mpir

Unpackaged data files (easy to package):

conway_polynomials

elliptic_curves

graphs

polytopes_db

Unpackaged Sage components:

extcode

A miscellany. Appears to have Tim's debian subdirectory for building the package, jsMath, and tons of other stuff. Most (all?) of it is not a problem (jsMath is already in Debian, but which version is included in Sage is not clear to me), but some things may require finding upstream and building a Debian package. More work needed.

sage

sage_root

sage_scripts

sagenb

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

rubiks

a toy spkg -- debian can probably get along without it.

termcap

Will possibly be removed from Sage:

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. The following mail of William Hart tells more about the state of the quadratic sieve code in both flint and flint2

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Outdated packages (red spots on the status page)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

gfan

592425

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:

cddlib

578770

Tobias

lcalc

592426

Tobias

linbox

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

palp

672785

Julien

singular

576547

(Maybe) need a wishlist update bug:

jmol

scipy

Maybe good enough:

boehm_gc

673965

Sponsorship requests:

polybori

Comment on debian-science@l.d.o

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/