[bug#56729] [RFC PATCH 00/10] Add sagemath.

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Hello,

On 2022-08-08T16:40:37+0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 11:24:31AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> > > This series adds SageMath. Everything compiles just fine and even the
> > > Jupyter notebook interface works, but there is still much work to do. So
> > > far, I have only added the minimal set of inputs required for the build
> > > to succeed. Tests and documentations are still missing.
> > This looks great already!  To make sure things don’t stall, we could
> > apply the patch series piecemeal, starting with the dependencies that
> > you think are ready, and leaving more time to polish the ‘sagemath’
> > package.
> 
> thanks for letting me know, I will start by having a look at the patches
> doing version updates.
Great! But note that I just sent an updated series with minor touch ups :).

> Concerning sagemath itself, below is my very old version of an attempt at
> packaging the library. Some things look reassuringly similar, my handling
> of the number of cores is less nice, but I do delete the bundled packages.
The `upstream' directory only seems to exist in the published tarball.
So this should be no problem if we build from git.

> Maybe you could copy useful parts into your recipe?
I'll take a look!

> As for tests, indeed we should drop them for the time being until we have
> a working sage package.
Too late (for the most part) :).