We tried to use cmucl/clisp to build maxima but gcl is ingrained enough in the package that we couldn't get it built and tested in time for the Dapper release. I think we can get the issue resolved relatively soon and I'd like to see it go into the dapper-updates repo. I'm a little concerned about the underlying problem though. It works fine in Debian unstable and the maxima package really hasn't been changed in dapper. I would rather find out why than just ditch gcl.
We tried to use cmucl/clisp to build maxima but gcl is ingrained enough in the package that we couldn't get it built and tested in time for the Dapper release. I think we can get the issue resolved relatively soon and I'd like to see it go into the dapper-updates repo. I'm a little concerned about the underlying problem though. It works fine in Debian unstable and the maxima package really hasn't been changed in dapper. I would rather find out why than just ditch gcl.