please remove sagetex package from texlive-latex-extra
Bug #512284 reported by
Dan Drake
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| texlive-extra (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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| texlive-extra (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
The texlive-latex-extra package in Lucid includes the SageTeX package. I'd like to request that this be removed from the TeXLive packaging in Ubuntu/Debian. This package requires both TL and Sage (http://
Sage is updated far more frequently than TeXLive, and most users who use Sage install it from source or from a binary from sagemath.org. As SageTeX is now included by default in Sage, it seems reasonable to not include the SageTeX package in Ubuntu's TeXLive packaging.
Thanks.
Revision history for this message
| Dan Drake (ddrake) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in texlive-extra (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in texlive-extra (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in texlive-extra (Debian): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
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Hello?
Two years and not even a comment?
I'm just asking for a couple directories be removed from texlive-
In the meantime, we get reports every few weeks on the Sage mailing lists of people who are having trouble because of this problem. I don't understand why this cannot be done.