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

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi,
I am maintaining the Debian package primesieve.
Let me know if primecount is part of primesieve in some way.
I might miss some stuff at one stage. who knows.
Cheers,
Jerome

On 19/11/2021 16:04, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> Sage is only using libprimecount
> 
> 
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2021, 15:02 Dima Pasechnik, <dimpase at gmail.com <mailto:dimpase at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 2:51 PM Julien Puydt <julien.puydt at gmail.com <mailto: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 <https://repology.org/project/primecount/versions>
>      > > > - and SageMath is about to update it and make standard.
>      > > > https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/25009 <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 <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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