Orphaning gbirthday and linbox

[Thomas Spura]

On Sat, 14 May 2011 21:14:20 -0600
Jerry James wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Thomas Spura
> <tomspur at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >        * linbox:
> >          Required for SAGE [1], but FTBFS since a while and the new
> >          version now requires another package, not yet in fedora.
> > This is hard to maintain, because of many multilib problems/hacks
> >          etc.
> >          (CC'ing givaro maintainer, so he doesn't need to wait for
> > an upgrade for linbox.)
> 
> What other package, not yet in Fedora, does the new version require?
> I've been collecting SAGE-related packages lately, so I might be
> willing to take this one, too.

The latest version 1.2.0 is now complaining with:
 ERROR: Fflas-Ffpack not found!
and I gave up, because linbox is quite hacky.

Maybe it would be better to use the sage sourcepackage of linbox and
not packaging it from the upstream webpage...

Greetings,
    Thomas