Debian SAGE Packaging Team (DSPT)

Task description

Currently [http://sagemath.org/ SAGE] is not in Debian yet. This team wants to make this happen.

Infrastructure

• Website: http://wiki.sagemath.org/DebianSAGE

• Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/debian-sage

• IRC Channel: #sage-devel on freenode

• Packages already in Debian: http://wiki.sagemath.org/days6/sprint/debian

• Infrastructure, setup and progress at [:days7/DebianPackagingSprint:Debian Packing Sprint during Sage Days 7]

• Bugs to close: http://bugs.debian.org/455292, https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/120527

People

(Please add yourself below, if you want to help)

• Tim Abbott

• [:MichaelAbshoff: Michael Abshoff]

• [:OndrejCertik: Ondřej Čertík]

• [:WilliamStein: William Stein]

Other

We are aware of the official Debian Alioth project and mailing lists and later we can move things to Alioth if we decide to do so. But the google groups interface is nice and also the "debian-sage" project is not official in Debian (yet), but we already need to coordinate efforts.

Plan/Status

The following items should be done in parallel:

• redesign spkg-install to handle distribution packages (done for Debian, patch will be in 2.10.2)
• create Debian packages for spkgs not in Debian (nearly done, sage-*.spkg still missing)
• use existing packages from testing and track down the debs in testing that cause doctest failures. Resolve those issues
• Expand the building to non-testing and track down failures in existing debs. Investigate the use of backports.org for those debs

See the team mailinglist for uptodate information on what is happening. Join the Google group debian-sage for discussion. Packagers from other distributions and operating systems are welcome there, too.