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

[Dima Pasechnik]

Hi Jerome,

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 4:16 PM Jerome BENOIT <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:
>
> It looks like primecount and primesieve are two different projects
> maintained by the same author.

yes - and primecount is using primesieve

By default primecount just vendors primesieve, if built from source.
But it's possible to tell it not to do so, by using
-DBUILD_LIBPRIMESIEVE=OFF
option in the cmake call.

HTH
Dima

> Jerome
>
> On 19/11/2021 17:11, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > 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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