primesieve needs new maintainer?!

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hello  All, and Kim,
primesieve does need a new maintainer:
I will work on it soon: it is the second package to refresh on my top list.
I have first to deals with normaliz on which depends SageMath.

Thanks for your patience,
Jerome

On 06/11/17 12:53, Kim Walisch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am the author of the primesieve C/C++ library (math tool for finding
> prime numbers). The version offered by Debian is 5.7.2 (15 months
> old) while the most recent version is 6.2. I would be happy if the
> primesieve package in Debian was updated to the latest version.
> 
> Up until now Jerome BENOIT was primesieve's maintainer but he
> told me about 6 months ago that he is very busy due to a new job
> and my last contact attempt 9 days ago failed.
> 
> As mentioned before primesieve is a C/C++ based library which now
> uses cmake as its build system. I have also created the GitHub repo
> https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve-debian which contains the
> code required to package primesieve-6.2 for debian. So there is only
> little work required to package primesieve-6.2.
> 
> Please get in touch with me if you are willing to take over primesieve
> maintainership.
> 
> Best regards,
> Kim

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