Packaging and distributing SageMath

a Sage days 77 project

Part of the days 77 workshop was dedicated to studying possible improvements to SageMath's package system and availability in popular distributions.

There is a cyclic interest in these issues. Past Sage Days that have also dealt with them were days 4 and days 7.

When talking about modularization, packaging, distribution, etc., Sage devs may mean several different things at the same time:

Distributing SageMath as a set of packages for a popular distribution (e.g., Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Anaconda, ...);
Improving the current module system builtin in SageMath (at the time of writing, SPKGs), and its interfaces with the build system and the development workflow;
Splitting the SageMath library into more modules, possibly making some modules optional;
Taking components out of SageMath and making them available to general purpose python code (e.g., via pip);

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Packaging SageMath for Linux distributions