Upgrade maxima to 5.19.2

Some further comments, because of the reported problems about Maxima and wxMaxima:

1.
It is no problem to compile and build Maxima or wxMaxima on Ubuntu 9.10 and the earlier version with serveal Lisp compilers. I am sure that even Maxima 5.17.1 has no problems. I think it is a problem of the Maxima debian package. Not the version of Maxima is the problem, but the package.

2.
A look into the file list shows me that the Maxima share code (maxima-share) and the Maxima tests (maxima-tests) are distributed in two different packages.
The share code is a must to run Maxima, it is not optional, because a lot of incore functionality of Maxima needs code from the share code.
The test code (Maxima testsuite) should run without any error after installation. It is a good idea to have the testsuite in the basic distribution too and to give a hint to start the testsuite after installation.

Dieter Kaiser

Now, when it's fixed in Debian, can Ubuntu merge the new package?

This bug was fixed in the package maxima - 5.20.1-5ubuntu1

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maxima (5.20.1-5ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #480039), remaining changes:
     - debian/maxima-doc.doc-base.plotting:
      + Use .shtml instead of .html to fix lintian errors.
     - debian/maxima-emacs.emacsen-install:
      + Install symlinks for source files rather than copying them. This
        makes find-function work.
      + Install symlink for *.lisp so that we don't need to add
        /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/maxima to load-path.
    - debian/maxima-emacs.emacsen-startup:
      + Remove use of /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/maxima, since this
        causes load-path shadows and is not needed anymore.
    - Comment out backward-delete-char-untabify in maxima.el.
  * Build against newer version of gcl which does work with
    kernel.randomize_va_space (LP: #303587).

maxima (5.20.1-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * fix FTBFS on sparc

maxima (5.20.1-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * -O0 on ia64, fixing testsuite for now.
  * no SGC on sparc, no testsuite error on sparc until gcl with -O2 is in testing
  * Bug fix: "Missing dependency on texlive-latex3", thanks to Andreas
    Rottmann (Closes: #565545).

maxima (5.20.1-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * more test suite error fixes

maxima (5.20.1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix testsuite errors

maxima (5.20.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * Bug fix: "integral of positive function is negative", thanks to Sanjoy
    Mahajan (Closes: #530442).
  * Bug fix: "double quote ('') operator does not work!", thanks
    to Andres Cimmarusti (Closes: #556134). Bug in documentation no
    longer present. Please reopen if you disagree.

maxima (5.20.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Camm Maguire ]
  * New upstream release
  * Bug fix: "replacing libreadline5-dev build dependency with
    libreadline-dev", thanks to Matthias Klose (Closes: #553812).
  * Bug fix: "crash after ctrl-C", thanks to Miroslaw Kwasniak (Closes:
    #450703). Build depend on >= gcl-2.6.7-26.
  * Bug fix: "xmaxima 5.10.0 can't find it's docs in
    /usr/share/maxima/5.13.0/doc", thanks to Siward de Groot (Closes:
    #489167).
  * Bug fix: "Wrong project address in the manpage", thanks to Simon
    Danner (Closes: #519853). Fixed upstream
  * Bug fix: "maxima should recommend or suggest maxima-emacs", thanks to
    Chris Walker (Closes: #502632).
  * Bug fix: "[maxima] maxima version 5.18.1 was out since April", thanks
    to Huy (Closes: #533113).
  * Bug fix: "upstream version of maxima is now 5.19.2, please update!",
    thanks to Andres Cimmarusti (Closes: #552280).
  * Bug fix: "/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50imaxima-imath.el missing", thanks
    to M G Berberich (Closes: #493725).
  * lintian fixes
  * change maintainer address
 -- Ilya Barygin <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:02:37 +0300