ITP for nfft3 library, need some help getting started

[Ghislain Vaillant]

Hi everyone,

I would like to package this library for Debian. This package should fit 
in the same category as fftw, since it fulfills the same use, i.e. the 
fast computation of the Fourier transform of arbitrary dimensions, but 
from or to non-uniformly sampled data. This is of particular interest 
for numerous scientific applications, as explained in the homepage of 
the project: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~potts/nfft/.

I have been using it for quite a while, and even wrote my own Python 
wrapper for it. Code quality is pretty good, there is a fairly complete 
documentation available online, and the code has been receiving regular 
major and bugfix updates over the years.

The build process uses autotools, which, according to the debian 
packaging guidelines, should make the creation of the package not too 
difficult at first. However, since it is my very first contribution to 
packaging in debian, I would need a bit of hand-holding to be sure I am 
following the right steps.

Looking forward to work with you guys, thanks for your time.


Ghislain Vaillant, Ph.D. student
Department of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
King's College London