Add info about PPA being "stripped down" about website

[williamstein]

It's not just stripped down. The PPA is ancient. The AIMS people have long ago (sage 7.5) given up on updating it... It's useless.

[slel]

If I understand correctly, the AIMS team stopped producing the PPA because
it is no longer needed now that SageMath is packaged for Debian.

The SageMath Linux download page
should be updated to reflect that, with appropriate instructions on how to install from the
Debian package (something like apt-get install sagemath probably?).

And maybe add a link to https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=sagemath

[williamstein]

Is it in Debian but NOT Ubuntu? If in Ubuntu, which version? -- -- William Stein

[haraldschilly]

well, I have no idea about this, but at least I've removed the ppa link and instead point to debian sid. they have 8.1 here: https://packages.debian.org/sid/sagemath

[nthiery]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 06:58:47AM +0000, William Stein wrote: Is it in Debian but NOT Ubuntu? If in Ubuntu, which version?

I did not investigate further, but noticed it was in Ubuntu 17.04, but not any more in 17.10. I have no idea why. This is really annoying. Nicolas

[kcrisman]

If I understand correctly, the AIMS team stopped producing the PPA because
it is no longer needed now that SageMath is packaged for Debian.

@pipedream can probably confirm but that sounds right.

[pipedream]

Correct

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