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

[Dima Pasechnik]

Sage is only using libprimecount


On Fri, 19 Nov 2021, 15:02 Dima Pasechnik, <dimpase at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 2:51 PM Julien Puydt <julien.puydt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> primesieve (i.e. libprimesieve) is used by primecount (which in turn uses
> libprimecount).
>
> Installing primecount  (git repo) from source gives one libraries
> libprime[sieve,count], and
> executable primecount
>
> I have not looked into ways to unvendor libprimesieve from primecount.
> I guess if it's done, then it's done "cmake way" - cmake has its own
> concept of (source?) packages IMHO.
>
> HTH
> Dima
>
>
> >
> > 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
> >
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