[Debian-science-sagemath] plans to package primecount (the C++ library)

[Julien Puydt]

Le vendredi 19 novembre 2021 à 15:39 +0100, Julien Puydt a écrit :
> Le vendredi 19 novembre 2021 à 13:10 +0000, Dima Pasechnik a écrit :
> > Several distros package primecount:
> > https://repology.org/project/primecount/versions
> > - and SageMath is about to update it and make standard.
> > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25009
> > 
> > Any plans for packaging it in Debian? It only needs a standard C++
> > toolchain and cmake.
> > (I can have a go at it, if someone provides some onboarding etc).
> 
> 
> I had only checked the wanted packages -- but we have primesieve
> already:
> 
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/primesieve
> 
> isn't it the one?

Ah, but the same upstream has:

- primesieve, which is packaged ;

- primecount, which might not be, but looks like it provides a
libprimesieve too.

What does sagemath need exactly? If it's the lib, we might already have
it... or not!

I have to admit I'm a bit confused.

Cheers,

J.Puydt