It would be my pleasure to became a comaintainer of mathgl in Fedora as well if you don't mind.

Hi Dmitrij,

The problem is that upgrading mathgl will break a dependency, 3Depict. I am the maintainer (and upstream) of that project, and I have updated a private version to support mathgl 2, however this has not yet been released, and is still being tested.

We are looking to release in ~1 month, at which time 3Depict will support both mathgl 1x and mathgl 2x via a preprocessor define. This will mean updating mathgl will not break the downstream package - which is nice :). 

As for co-maintaining, that would be great! Are you in the packager group? If so, just let me know when you apply for ACL rights for mathgl, and I will transfer grant them. 

Having a package ready in git would be useful.

> We are looking to release in ~1 month, at which time 3Depict will support
> both mathgl 1x and mathgl 2x via a preprocessor define.

Fine.

> As for co-maintaining, that would be great! Are you in the packager group?
> If so, just let me know when you apply for ACL rights for mathgl, and I will
> transfer grant them. 

Applied. Thanks.

I attempted to rebuild
seems to work
please use/repackage officially

based on mathgl-2.1.1-2.1.2.src.rpm 
from SUSE distribution

/home/guser/rpmbuild/RPMS/
/home/guser/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch
/home/guser/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/mathgl-doc-2.1.2-2.1.2.noarch.rpm
/home/guser/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/mathgl-fonts-2.1.2-2.1.2.noarch.rpm
/home/guser/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64
/home/guser/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/udav-2.1.2-2.1.2.x86_64.rpm
/home/guser/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mathgl-tools-2.1.2-2.1.2.x86_64.rpm
/home/guser/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/python-mathgl-2.1.2-2.1.2.x86_64.rpm
/home/guser/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libmathgl7-2.1.2-2.1.2.x86_64.rpm
/home/guser/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mathgl-examples-2.1.2-2.1.2.x86_64.rpm
/home/guser/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/octave-mathgl-2.1.2-2.1.2.x86_64.rpm
/home/guser/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/mathgl-devel-2.1.2-2.1.2.x86_64.rpm
/home/guser/rpmbuild//SRPMS/mathgl-2.1.2-2.1.2.src.rpm

attmpting to attach
A) specfile mathgl.specs
B) src rpm mathgl-2.1.2-2.1.2.src.rpm 

unclear what this is: but 

# rpm -i  /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/*4.rpm /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/mathgl-*
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.SEJPGk: line 1: fg: no job control
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.SEJPGk: line 2: fg: no job control
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.SEJPGk: line 3: fg: no job control
warning: %post(mathgl-doc-2.1.2-2.1.2.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

seems to work

ALso, I do not know if there is redundancy between stix-fonts.rpm and mathgl-fonts.rpm

Created attachment 730036 [details]
SPEC file for rebuilding

adapted from Suse mathgl-2.1.1-2.1.2.src.rpm, modified for mathgl-2.1.2

Created attachment 730037 [details]
src.rpm

Source rpm including recent mathgl form mathgl website.

 rpm -ivh /home/guser/Downloads/mathgl-2.1.1-2.1.2.src.rpm
 rpmbuild -vv -ba /home/guser/rpmbuild/SPECS/mathgl.spec

let know if works

thanks for the spec - but unfortunately I had to modify the existing one to ensure compliance with the packaging guidelines (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines).

Anyway, I've pushed a commit to git master :
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/mathgl.git/

I would appreciate some feedback, as the new buildsystem is quite different to the old.

I am happy to see that you are working on this.  Thanks!

mathgl-2.1.2-8.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mathgl-2.1.2-8.fc19

Package mathgl-2.1.2-8.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing mathgl-2.1.2-8.fc19'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11589/mathgl-2.1.2-8.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

mathgl-2.1.2-8.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

is it the case that a octave-mathgl is excluded ?

(In reply to Ganapathi Kamath from comment #13)
> is it the case that a octave-mathgl is excluded ?

Right. It is what I'm planning to do with new 2.1.3 version (already released). But some time later, sorry. You could open a new bugreport with octave support request if you want to track this issue.