Getting Sage 4.0.x into Debian experimental

This is a ToDo list to sort out some issues to get Sage 4.0.x into Debian experimental since currently the rather outdated Sage 3.0.5 is the only version of Sage available via Debian's system. For more info see the thread at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/f56d4635114d4fe5/a21b5ce968dd9707

Needs to be done

Patches needing to be merged upstream

Haven't found any yet.