primesieve needs new maintainer?!

[Kim Walisch]

Hi Jerome,

That's great to hear! Updating the primesieve debian package is not
urgent but I will be glad when it's done...

Greetings,
Kim

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Jerome BENOIT <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:

> 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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